Kennen with Nilah
How to Synergize Kennen and Nilah
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Kennen Nilah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Nilah
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.
Kennen Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nilah helps Kennen perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is an ally to Nilah, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Nilah does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Nilah on the same team, 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 Nilah.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Nilah on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Nilah does a decent job of covering Kennen during team fights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no perfect companion for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Nilah is a decent teammate for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, they increases their win rate by 2.0% to 50.6%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Kennen and Nilah that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means you should be very careful when finding Nilah allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Kennen players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Kennen and Nilah together, you may not be granting your team very much cover. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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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 work well with Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Kennen and Nilah synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nilah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Nilah with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Kennen players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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