Kennen with Gwen
How to Synergize Kennen and Gwen
based on 318 Kennen with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Kennen Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gwen helps Kennen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Gwen, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Gwen does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Gwen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gwen.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Gwen on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Gwen
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no top synergy for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Gwen is a top-tier teammate for Kennen. By playing on the same side as Kennen, she increases their win rate by 3.9% to 52.5%. This shows that there is a very strong bond between Kennen and Gwen that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Gwen has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you should be careful when arranging Gwen comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Kennen players should expect to observe 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 Kennen and Gwen together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough engage. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kennen in order to work well with Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Kennen and Gwen synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Gwen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 52.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gwen with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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