Jax with Kennen
How to Synergize Jax and Kennen
based on 1,801 Jax with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Jax Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Jax vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Jax with Kennen
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Jax in LoL
The Jax 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, Jax sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Jax perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jax plays on the same team as Kennen, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Kennen does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played alongside Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Moreover, when Jax plays with Kennen on the same side, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Jax during team fights.
Synergies between Jax and Kennen
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Is Jax better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Jax that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Kennen is a below average teammate for Jax. By locking into the same side as Jax, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 49.6%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Jax and Kennen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Jax. That means Jax players don't need to be very careful when finding Kennen allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Jax and Kennen together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Jax to synergize with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Jax and Kennen synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jax included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Kennen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Jax players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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