Taliyah with Kennen
How to Synergize Taliyah and Kennen
based on 263 Taliyah with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taliyah Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Taliyah vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Taliyah and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Taliyah with Kennen
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.
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.
Taliyah Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Taliyah in LoL
The Taliyah Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Taliyah sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kennen helps Taliyah perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taliyah is an ally to Kennen, she sees a little drop in her complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Kennen does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played alongside Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kennen.
Additionally, when Taliyah plays with Kennen on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Taliyah during team fights.
Synergies between Taliyah and Kennen
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Is Taliyah better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal synergy for Taliyah that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Kennen is a very bad teammate for Taliyah. By locking into the same team as Taliyah, he decreases their win rate by -3.9% to 44.9%. This shows that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Taliyah and Kennen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Taliyah. That means Taliyah players don't need to be cautious when finding Kennen allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Taliyah and Kennen together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Taliyah in order to synergize with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Taliyah and Kennen synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Kennen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 44.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.9% win rate overall.
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