Kennen with Briar
How to Synergize Kennen and Briar
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Kennen Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Briar
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Briar
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Kennen Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kennen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Briar helps Kennen perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is an ally to Briar, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could signal that Briar does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Briar.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Briar on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Briar does a decent job of covering Kennen in team fights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Briar?
There is no one best ally for Kennen that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Briar is a superb companion for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, they raises their win rate by 4.3% to 52.9%. This shows that there is a strong bond between Kennen and Briar that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Briar comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Kennen and Briar together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of tankyness. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Briar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kennen in order to work well with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Kennen and Briar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Shadowflame. When Kennen bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Briar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 52.9% when playing alongside Briar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Briar with Kennen are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.