Kennen with Riven
How to Synergize Kennen and Riven
based on 565 Kennen with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Riven
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Kennen Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Kennen perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is an ally to Riven, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Riven supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Riven 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 synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Riven on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Kennen in teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Riven
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Kennen that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Riven is a fantastic companion for Kennen. By locking into the same team as Kennen, she raises their win rate by 3.8% to 52.4%. This proves that there is a strong synergy between Kennen and Riven that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means Kennen players need to be very careful when lining up Riven teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Kennen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kennen and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 to work well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Kennen and Riven synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 52.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven 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 chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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