Kennen with Hwei
How to Synergize Kennen and Hwei
based on 1,294 Kennen with Hwei pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Hwei Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Hwei
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Hwei
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 Hwei Will Play
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
Kennen Hwei Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hwei as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Hwei synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hwei, 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 Hwei. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Hwei helps Kennen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen tries to synergize with Hwei, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Hwei does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Hwei on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Hwei.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Hwei on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Hwei does a poor job of protecting Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Hwei
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Hwei?
There is no top synergy for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Hwei is a very bad ally for Kennen. By locking into the same team as Kennen, they lowers their win rate by -8.4% to 40.2%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Kennen and Hwei that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Hwei has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Hwei teammates to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Kennen and Hwei together, you will not be granting your other allies much engage potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Hwei ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to synergize with Hwei during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Kennen and Hwei synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Hwei than with most other common builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 40.2% when playing alongside Hwei with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Kennen players should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 40.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Hwei with Kennen are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.