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How to Synergize Kennen and Taliyah

based on 263 Kennen with Taliyah pairs
Win Rate
44.9 %
K/D/A
2
Pick Rate
0.6 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

At MOBA Champion, we pull data from from millions of League matches straight from Riot Games each week. Kennen has gone into battle with Taliyah in 263 recently played, ranked games. By accumulating so much great data from the makers of LoL, we are completely sure that we can showcase high-quality, insightful builds to help Kennen play with Taliyah. It is very rare for Kennen to play with Taliyah as teammates. This has only occurred in approximately 0.6% of games with Kennen.

Kennen Taliyah Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Kennen has done a awful job of teaming up with Taliyah. Typically, he wins a lowly 44.9% of the time the champions fight together on the same side. If you want to win more matches as Kennen when playing with Taliyah by learning how to better synergize your playstyle with her, then dig into the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Kennen vs Taliyah Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeHextech Alternator

Core Kennen Items

~22 Mins
Hextech RocketbeltShadowflameStormsurge

Optional Items

Zhonya's Hourglass

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

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

Runes

SorcerySummon AeryNimbus CloakTranscendenceScorch
DominationTaste of BloodUltimate Hunter
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceArmor
Kennen's passive ability p
Kennen's q ability q
Kennen's w ability w
Kennen's e ability e
Kennen's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
W
3
E
4
Q
5
Q
6
R
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Q
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W
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10
W
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W
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W
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E
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R

Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Taliyah

Tips for Playing as Kennen with Taliyah

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 Taliyah Will Play

Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.

Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.

Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.

Kennen Taliyah Synergy Stats

Kennen Image
Win Rate
44.9 %
VS
Win Rate
55.1 %
Taliyah Image
6.7
< Kills >
6.4
6.3
< Deaths >
6.1
5.9
< Assists >
6.3
1.63
< Killing Sprees >
1.47
160
< Minions Killed >
162
0.06
< Dragons Killed >
0.06
0.49
< Inhibitors >
0.42
2,112
< Physical Damage >
2,123
20,790
< Magic Damage >
20,963
614
< True Damage >
635
23,517
< Damage Dealt >
23,722
22,333
< Damage Taken >
22,165
11,618
< Gold Earned >
11,516
2.15
< Towers >
1.99
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.02
2,949
< Total Healing >
3,060
14,449
< Experience >
14,650
19
< Vision Score >
19
9
< Wards Placed >
9
72
< Time Dealing CC >
73

How to Play with Taliyah as Kennen in LoL

The Kennen Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Taliyah helps Kennen perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.

When Kennen is an ally to Taliyah, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Taliyah does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Taliyah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Taliyah.

Additionally, when Kennen plays with Taliyah on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Taliyah does a poor job of covering Kennen in teamfights.

Synergies between Kennen and Taliyah

Damage Types Compared

Kennen
Taliyah
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Kennen
Taliyah

Is Kennen better when played alongside Taliyah?

There is no perfect companion for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Taliyah is a very bad companion for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, she drops their win rate by -3.7% to 44.9%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible synergy between Kennen and Taliyah that results in them performing not as well together than alone.

Taliyah has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players need to be careful when finding Taliyah allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.

When playing together, Kennen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.

Conversely, by pairing Kennen and Taliyah together, you may not be providing your other allies very much sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.

Regardless of the ability of your Taliyah ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Kennen Players

How We Calculated Our Kennen Taliyah Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Kennen and Taliyah, we analyzed 263 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 Kennen with Taliyah 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 Kennen in order to synergize with Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.

The best finished items to have in your Kennen and Taliyah synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Taliyah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 44.9% helping carry Taliyah with these items in his kit.

To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Kennen and Taliyah pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.9% winrate overall.

If you need to see Kennen with Taliyah collaboration tips and builds for a an individual division rank, feel free to choose one from the selection menu above. At first, the statistics and tips and suggestions given are computed using every round played with both champs.