Ryze with Kennen
How to Synergize Ryze and Kennen
based on 183 Ryze with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ryze Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Ryze vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Kennen
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze 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, Ryze sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Ryze perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ryze is paired with Kennen, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Kennen supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played together with Kennen on the same team, 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.
Additionally, when Ryze plays with Kennen on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Ryze during teamfights.
Synergies between Ryze and Kennen
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Ryze that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Kennen is a terrible companion for Ryze. By being on the same side as Ryze, he drops their win rate by -3.1% to 45.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Ryze and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Ryze. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Kennen teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Ryze and Kennen together, you will not be granting your other teammates much protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 truly master Ryze to work well with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Ryze and Kennen synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Luden's Companion, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Kennen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 45.9% helping carry Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Ryze players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Ryze and Kennen pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
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