Kennen with Jhin
How to Synergize Kennen and Jhin
based on 4,498 Kennen with Jhin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Jhin Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Jhin
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Jhin
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 Jhin Will Play
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
Kennen Jhin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jhin as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Jhin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jhin, 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 Jhin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jhin helps Kennen perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is an ally to Jhin, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Jhin provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Jhin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Jhin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Jhin.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Jhin on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Jhin does a poor job of covering Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Jhin
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Jhin?
There is no ideal synergy for Kennen that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Jhin is a pretty good companion for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 50.5%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Kennen and Jhin that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Jhin has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you should be very careful when lining up Jhin teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Kennen and Jhin together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Jhin ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kennen in order to work well with Jhin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Kennen and Jhin synergy build include Cryptbloom, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Jhin than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jhin with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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