Kennen with Katarina
How to Synergize Kennen and Katarina
based on 825 Kennen with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Kennen Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Kennen perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is an ally to Katarina, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Katarina does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Katarina on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Kennen in team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Katarina
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal ally for Kennen that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Katarina is a relatively poor companion for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, she decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 46.8%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Kennen and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means Kennen players must be very careful when arranging Katarina allies to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Kennen and Katarina together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 to pair well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Kennen and Katarina synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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