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How to Synergize Warwick and Kennen

based on 1,591 Warwick with Kennen pairs
Win Rate
48.1 %
K/D/A
2.1
Pick Rate
1 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

At MOBA Champion, we take in data from from millions of League rounds straight from Riot Games each week. Warwick has been on the same team as Kennen in 1591 recently played, ranked matches. By accumulating so much accurate data from the publishers of League of Legends, we are completely sure that we can showcase high-quality, insightful builds to help Warwick synergize with Kennen. It is very rare for Warwick to play with Kennen as allies. This pairing has only taken place in approximately 1.0% of rounds with Warwick.

Warwick Kennen Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Warwick does a dismal job of synergizing with Kennen. Normally, he wins a lowly 48.1% of matches the champions try and work together in. If you want to play better as Warwick when playing alongside Kennen by figuring out how to better synergize your strategy with him, then review the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Warwick vs Kennen Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Mosstomper SeedlingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Ruby CrystalTiamat

Core Warwick Items

~22 Mins
Experimental HexplateTitanic HydraSundered Sky

Optional Items

Spear of ShojinJak'Sho, The ProteanTrinity ForceSpirit Visage

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Warwick to level upw
>
Second ability for Warwick to level upq
>
Last skill for Warwick to max oute

Runes

PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
SorceryCelerityWaterwalking
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceArmor
Warwick's passive ability p
Warwick's q ability q
Warwick's w ability w
Warwick's e ability e
Warwick's ultimate ability r
1
Q
2
W
3
E
4
W
5
W
6
R
7
W
8
Q
9
W
10
Q
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R
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Q
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Q
14
E
15
E
16
R

Guide to Synergizing Warwick and Kennen

Tips for Playing as Warwick with Kennen

Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.

Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.

Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.

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.

Warwick Kennen Synergy Stats

Warwick Image
Win Rate
48.1 %
VS
Win Rate
51.9 %
Kennen Image
7.5
< Kills >
7.3
7.1
< Deaths >
6.9
7.4
< Assists >
6.9
1.73
< Killing Sprees >
1.7
42
< Minions Killed >
53
1.58
< Dragons Killed >
1.34
0.37
< Inhibitors >
0.39
7,549
< Physical Damage >
7,595
8,701
< Magic Damage >
8,971
869
< True Damage >
824
17,119
< Damage Dealt >
17,391
41,304
< Damage Taken >
39,970
11,851
< Gold Earned >
11,570
1.33
< Towers >
1.37
0.31
< Baron Takedowns >
0.28
22,742
< Total Healing >
21,569
13,468
< Experience >
13,215
20
< Vision Score >
19
6
< Wards Placed >
6
298
< Time Dealing CC >
288

How to Play with Kennen as Warwick in LoL

The Warwick 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, Warwick sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kennen helps Warwick perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.

When Warwick tries to synergize with Kennen, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Kennen doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Warwick is played alongside Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.

Moreover, when Warwick plays with Kennen on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Warwick in team fights.

Synergies between Warwick and Kennen

Damage Types Compared

Warwick
Kennen
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Warwick
Kennen

Is Warwick better when played alongside Kennen?

There is no top champion pairing for Warwick that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Kennen is a relatively poor teammate for Warwick. By playing on the same side as Warwick, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 48.1%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Warwick and Kennen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.

Kennen has a greater difficulty than Warwick. That means Warwick players must be very careful when finding Kennen comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.

Playing together, Warwick players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.

In contrast, by pairing Warwick and Kennen together, you will not be giving your other teammates much engage potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.

Regardless of the skill of your Kennen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Warwick Players

How We Calculated Our Warwick Kennen Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Warwick and Kennen, we analyzed 1,591 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Warwick with Kennen comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Warwick in order to synergize with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.

The most important finished items to get in your Warwick and Kennen synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Warwick combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Kennen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Warwick boasted an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Kennen with these items in his kit.

To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Warwick and Kennen pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.

By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kennen with Warwick are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.