Kennen with Akali
How to Synergize Kennen and Akali
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Kennen Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Akali
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Kennen Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kennen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akali helps Kennen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Akali, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Akali does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akali.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Akali on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of covering Kennen during team fights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top synergy for Kennen that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, Akali is a very bad ally for Kennen. By locking into the same side as Kennen, she lowers their win rate by -3.5% to 45.1%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Kennen and Akali that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Akali teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Kennen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Kennen and Akali together, you probably will not be providing your side enough tankyness. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to work well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Kennen and Akali synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Kennen bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Akali than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 45.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akali with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Kennen players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Kennen and Akali pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Akali with Kennen are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.