Xayah with Kennen
How to Synergize Xayah and Kennen
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Xayah Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xayah and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Xayah with Kennen
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Xayah in LoL
The Xayah 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, Xayah sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kennen helps Xayah perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xayah is an ally to Kennen, she observes a small increase in her complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Kennen provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played alongside Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kennen.
Additionally, when Xayah plays with Kennen on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Kennen does a decent job of protecting Xayah during teamfights.
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Is Xayah better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect synergy for Xayah that will always be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Kennen is a not very good ally for Xayah. By playing on the same team as Xayah, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 46.0%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Xayah and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Xayah. That means Xayah players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kennen allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Xayah and Kennen together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Xayah in order to pair well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Xayah and Kennen synergy build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 46.0% helping carry Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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