Kennen with Kha'Zix
How to Synergize Kennen and Kha'Zix
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Kennen Kha'Zix Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Kha'Zix Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Kha'Zix
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Kha'Zix
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 Kha'Zix Will Play
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
Kennen Kha'Zix Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kha'Zix as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Kha'Zix synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kha'Zix, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kha'Zix. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kha'Zix helps Kennen perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is paired with Kha'Zix, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Kha'Zix does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Kha'Zix 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 Kha'Zix.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Kha'Zix on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kha'Zix does a decent job of protecting Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Kha'Zix
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Kha'Zix?
There is no perfect synergy for Kennen that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Kha'Zix is a very typical ally for Kennen. By playing on the same side as Kennen, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 48.1%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Kennen and Kha'Zix that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kha'Zix has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you should be careful when finding Kha'Zix allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Kennen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Kennen and Kha'Zix together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much tankyness. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kha'Zix ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kennen to work well with Kha'Zix during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Kennen and Kha'Zix synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Kennen used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kha'Zix than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 48.1% helping carry Kha'Zix with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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