Kennen with Zilean
How to Synergize Kennen and Zilean
based on 387 Kennen with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Kennen Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Kennen perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Zilean, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Zilean helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Zilean 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 synergisticly with Zilean.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Zilean on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Zilean
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Zilean is a very typical teammate for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, he improves their win rate by 0.2% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Kennen and Zilean that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you must be very careful when finding Zilean comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Kennen players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kennen and Zilean together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to synergize with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Kennen and Zilean synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Zilean than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Kennen players should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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