Kennen with Karma
How to Synergize Kennen and Karma
based on 920 Kennen with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Karma Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Karma
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Kennen Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karma helps Kennen perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen tries to synergize with Karma, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Karma does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karma.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Karma on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Karma does a decent job of covering Kennen in team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Karma
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Karma?
There is no top ally for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Karma is a below average companion for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, she drops their win rate by -2.7% to 45.9%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Kennen and Karma that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you should be very careful when finding Karma comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Kennen and Karma together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 in order to pair well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Kennen and Karma synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Karma than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 45.9% helping carry Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Karma with Kennen are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.