Rek'Sai with Kennen
How to Synergize Rek'Sai and Kennen
based on 234 Rek'Sai with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rek'Sai Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rek'Sai and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai with Kennen
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Rek'Sai in LoL
The Rek'Sai 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, Rek'Sai sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kennen helps Rek'Sai perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rek'Sai is paired with Kennen, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Kennen provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rek'Sai is played with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kennen.
Additionally, when Rek'Sai plays with Kennen on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Kennen does a poor job of covering Rek'Sai in teamfights.
Synergies between Rek'Sai and Kennen
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Is Rek'Sai better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Rek'Sai that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Kennen is a terrible ally for Rek'Sai. By being on the same side as Rek'Sai, he lowers their win rate by -5.7% to 42.7%. This shows that there is a very bad synergy between Rek'Sai and Kennen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kennen has a greater difficulty than Rek'Sai. That means Rek'Sai players need to be cautious when lining up Kennen allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability 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 pairing Rek'Sai and Kennen together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Rek'Sai in order to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Rek'Sai and Kennen synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Kennen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai boasted an average win rate of 42.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Rek'Sai players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Rek'Sai and Kennen pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 42.7% winrate overall.
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