Viktor with Kennen
How to Synergize Viktor and Kennen
based on 318 Viktor with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viktor Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Kennen
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor 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 worsening shows that Kennen helps Viktor perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Viktor is paired with Kennen, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could signal that Kennen does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Viktor 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 alongside Kennen.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Kennen on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Viktor in teamfights.
Synergies between Viktor and Kennen
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no top champion pairing for Viktor that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Kennen is a not very good companion for Viktor. By playing on the same team as Viktor, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 48.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Viktor and Kennen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Kennen comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Viktor and Kennen together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Viktor to pair well with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Viktor and Kennen synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Viktor players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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