Yorick with Kennen
How to Synergize Yorick and Kennen
based on 450 Yorick with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Yorick Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Yorick vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Yorick and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Yorick with Kennen
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
Yorick Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Yorick in LoL
The Yorick 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, Yorick sees a very large drop 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 Yorick perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick tries to synergize with Kennen, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Kennen supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played together with Kennen on the same team, 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 Yorick plays with Kennen on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Yorick during team fights.
Synergies between Yorick and Kennen
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Is Yorick better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Yorick that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Kennen is a fantastic ally for Yorick. By locking into the same team as Yorick, he increases their win rate by 3.7% to 54.0%. This signals that there is an important bond between Yorick and Kennen that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Yorick. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Kennen comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Yorick and Kennen together, you may not be granting your other teammates much utility. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Yorick to pair well with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Yorick and Kennen synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Yorick bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kennen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 54.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Kennen with Yorick are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.