Kennen with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Kennen and Vel'Koz
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Kennen Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Kennen Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Kennen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Vel'Koz provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Kennen during team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Vel'Koz
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best synergy for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Vel'Koz is a below average teammate for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, he drops their win rate by -2.9% to 45.7%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Kennen and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means Kennen players should be careful when finding Vel'Koz teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Kennen players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Kennen and Vel'Koz together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of tankyness. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Kennen and Vel'Koz synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 45.7% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Kennen players should equip 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 sets players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Vel'Koz with Kennen are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.