Zilean with Kennen
How to Synergize Zilean and Kennen
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Zilean Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Kennen
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.
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.
Zilean Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean 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, Zilean sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kennen helps Zilean perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean is an ally to Kennen, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Kennen does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played together with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kennen.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Kennen on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Zilean in team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Kennen
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Zilean that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Kennen is a relatively poor ally for Zilean. By playing on the same team as Zilean, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Zilean and Kennen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be very careful when finding Kennen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Zilean and Kennen together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zilean in order to synergize with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Zilean and Kennen synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Kennen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Kennen with Zilean are given for all ranked divisions. To filter the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.