Kennen with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Kennen and Lee Sin
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Kennen Lee Sin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Kennen Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Lee Sin helps Kennen perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen tries to synergize with Lee Sin, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Lee Sin helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Lee Sin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lee Sin.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Lee Sin on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Lee Sin does a decent job of protecting Kennen during team fights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Kennen that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Lee Sin is a not very good teammate for Kennen. By playing on the same side as Kennen, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 46.8%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Kennen and Lee Sin that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Lee Sin has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players must be cautious when lining up Lee Sin teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Kennen and Lee Sin together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of engage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Lee Sin teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 pair well with Lee Sin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Kennen and Lee Sin synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Lee Sin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when playing alongside Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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