Kennen with Vayne
How to Synergize Kennen and Vayne
based on 2,051 Kennen with Vayne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Vayne Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Vayne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Vayne
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Vayne
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 Vayne Will Play
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
Kennen Vayne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vayne as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Vayne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vayne, 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 Vayne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vayne helps Kennen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Vayne, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Vayne supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Vayne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Vayne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vayne.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Vayne on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Vayne does a poor job of covering Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Vayne
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Vayne?
There is no ideal companion for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Vayne is a very typical companion for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, she increases their win rate by 0.1% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Kennen and Vayne that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Vayne has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means you must be cautious when arranging Vayne allies to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Kennen and Vayne together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of engage potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Vayne ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to pair well with Vayne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Kennen and Vayne synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Vayne than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 48.7% when playing alongside Vayne with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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