Wukong with Kennen
How to Synergize Wukong and Kennen
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Wukong Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Wukong vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Kennen
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Advice to Understand How Kennen Will Play
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.
Wukong Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Wukong sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kennen helps Wukong perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Wukong tries to synergize with Kennen, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Kennen does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played alongside Kennen 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 alongside Kennen.
Moreover, when Wukong plays with Kennen on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Wukong during team fights.
Synergies between Wukong and Kennen
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no top companion for Wukong that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Kennen is a below average companion for Wukong. By playing on the same team as Wukong, he lowers their win rate by -2.2% to 47.2%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Wukong and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kennen has a greater difficulty than Wukong. That means Wukong players need to be very careful when lining up Kennen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Wukong players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Wukong and Kennen together, you probably will not be giving your team enough magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you should 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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Wukong in order to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Wukong and Kennen synergy build include Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Kennen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Wukong had an average winrate of 47.2% helping carry Kennen with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Wukong players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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