Kennen with Irelia
How to Synergize Kennen and Irelia
based on 826 Kennen with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Kennen Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Irelia helps Kennen perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is an ally to Irelia, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Irelia doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Irelia.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Irelia on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Irelia
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no one best ally for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Irelia is a good companion for Kennen. By locking into the same side as Kennen, she raises their win rate by 1.5% to 50.1%. This shows that there is pretty good synergy between Kennen and Irelia that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Irelia has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you must be very careful when finding Irelia comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Kennen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Kennen and Irelia together, you may not be granting your other allies enough tankyness. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Irelia ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Kennen and Irelia synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Irelia than with most other common builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood 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 combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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