Kennen with Zed
How to Synergize Kennen and Zed
based on 1,430 Kennen with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Zed Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Zed
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Kennen Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Kennen perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen tries to synergize with Zed, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Zed helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Zed on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Kennen during team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Zed
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top companion for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Zed is a very bad companion for Kennen. By playing on the same side as Kennen, he lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 44.9%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Kennen and Zed that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you should be very careful when finding Zed comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Kennen players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Kennen and Zed together, you will not be giving your team a lot of cover. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to work well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Kennen and Zed synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Shadowflame. When Kennen included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Zed than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 44.9% helping carry Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Kennen players should take 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 Kennen and Zed pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.9% winrate overall.
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