Kennen with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Kennen and Caitlyn
based on 3,895 Kennen with Caitlyn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Caitlyn Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Caitlyn
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.
Advice to Understand How Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Kennen Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Caitlyn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Caitlyn helps Kennen perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is an ally to Caitlyn, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This may signal that Caitlyn doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Caitlyn 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 Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Caitlyn on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Caitlyn does a poor job of covering Kennen in team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Caitlyn
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Caitlyn is a below average teammate for Kennen. By being on the same side as Kennen, she decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 46.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Kennen and Caitlyn that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Caitlyn allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Kennen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Kennen and Caitlyn together, you may not be giving your team a lot of engage potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Caitlyn ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to work well with Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Kennen and Caitlyn synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Caitlyn than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 46.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Caitlyn with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kennen players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kennen and Caitlyn pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.5% winrate overall.
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