Zed with Kennen
How to Synergize Zed and Kennen
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Zed Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Zed with Kennen
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.
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.
Zed Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Zed in LoL
The Zed Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kennen helps Zed perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is paired with Kennen, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Kennen provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Kennen 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 alongside Kennen.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Kennen on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Kennen does a decent job of covering Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Kennen
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Is Zed better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Zed that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Kennen is a terrible teammate for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -3.5% to 44.9%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Zed and Kennen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be very careful when lining up Kennen comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zed and Kennen together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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 Zed in order to synergize with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Zed and Kennen synergy build include Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 44.9% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Kennen with Zed are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.