Kennen with Nocturne
How to Synergize Kennen and Nocturne
based on 2,272 Kennen with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Nocturne
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 Nocturne Will Play
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Kennen Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nocturne helps Kennen perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is paired with Nocturne, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Nocturne provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Nocturne on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Kennen during team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Nocturne
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no ideal synergy for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Nocturne is a very typical companion for Kennen. By playing on the same side as Kennen, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.6%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Kennen and Nocturne that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players don't need to be cautious when lining up Nocturne comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Kennen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Kennen and Nocturne together, you will not be giving your team a lot of AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nocturne teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 synergize with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Kennen and Nocturne synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Shadowflame. When Kennen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Nocturne than with most other common builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 48.6% helping carry Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kennen and Nocturne pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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