Samira with Kennen
How to Synergize Samira and Kennen
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Samira Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Samira vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Samira and Kennen
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.
Samira Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Samira in LoL
The Samira 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, Samira 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 Samira perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Samira tries to synergize with Kennen, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This change could signal that Kennen supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played alongside Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kennen.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Kennen on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Samira during teamfights.
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Is Samira better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect companion for Samira that will no matter what be her ideal ally. However, overall, Kennen is a relatively poor ally for Samira. By being on the same team as Samira, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 46.7%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Samira and Kennen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Samira. That means Samira players don't need to be very careful when finding Kennen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, Samira players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Samira and Kennen together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of engage potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Samira to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Samira and Kennen synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Kennen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.7% win rate overall.
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