Vel'Koz with Kennen
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Kennen
based on 661 Vel'Koz with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Kennen
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz 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, Vel'Koz 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 decrease shows that Kennen helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Kennen, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Kennen helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kennen.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Kennen on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz during team fights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no one best synergy for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Kennen is a terrible ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, he decreases their win rate by -4.6% to 45.7%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible synergy between Vel'Koz and Kennen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Kennen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vel'Koz and Kennen together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to synergize with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Vel'Koz and Kennen synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 45.7% helping carry Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.7% winrate overall.
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