Poppy with Kennen
How to Synergize Poppy and Kennen
based on 533 Poppy with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Kennen
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Poppy sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kennen helps Poppy perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy tries to synergize with Kennen, she observes a little drop in her full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Kennen does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Kennen on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Kennen does a decent job of protecting Poppy in teamfights.
Synergies between Poppy and Kennen
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect companion for Poppy that will always be her best ally. Yet, Kennen is a very typical companion for Poppy. By playing on the same team as Poppy, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 49.3%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Poppy and Kennen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Kennen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, Poppy players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Poppy and Kennen together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Poppy in order to pair well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Poppy and Kennen synergy build consist of Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Poppy boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Poppy and Kennen pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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