Nasus with Kennen
How to Synergize Nasus and Kennen
based on 577 Nasus with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Nasus vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Kennen
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus 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, Nasus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Nasus perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is an ally to Kennen, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Kennen helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Kennen on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Nasus during team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal ally for Nasus that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Kennen is a very typical ally for Nasus. By being on the same team as Nasus, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 50.8%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Nasus and Kennen that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kennen teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Nasus and Kennen together, you may not be granting your team a lot of engage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Nasus in order to synergize with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Nasus and Kennen synergy build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kennen with Nasus are given for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.