Kennen with Sylas
How to Synergize Kennen and Sylas
based on 842 Kennen with Sylas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Kennen Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sylas helps Kennen perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen tries to synergize with Sylas, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Sylas doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Sylas on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Sylas does a decent job of covering Kennen in teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Sylas
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no ideal companion for Kennen that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Sylas is a below average ally for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, he decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 46.1%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Kennen and Sylas that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Sylas has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players must be careful when lining up Sylas allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Kennen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Kennen and Sylas together, you will not be giving your other allies enough protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Sylas teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 synergize with Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Kennen and Sylas synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Kennen bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Sylas than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 46.1% when playing alongside Sylas with these items in his kit.
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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kennen and Sylas pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.1% win rate overall.
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