Yasuo with Kennen
How to Synergize Yasuo and Kennen
based on 2,442 Yasuo with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Yasuo Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Yasuo vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Kennen
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo 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, Yasuo sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Yasuo perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yasuo is an ally to Kennen, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Kennen helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo is played with Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kennen.
Moreover, when Yasuo plays with Kennen on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Yasuo in teamfights.
Synergies between Yasuo and Kennen
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect companion for Yasuo that will always be his best ally. However, Kennen is a not very good ally for Yasuo. By being on the same side as Yasuo, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 49.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Yasuo and Kennen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Yasuo. That means Yasuo players don't need to be careful when lining up Kennen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Yasuo players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Yasuo and Kennen together, you will not be providing your team a lot of cover. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo to pair well with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Yasuo and Kennen synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Kennen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Yasuo players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Yasuo and Kennen pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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