Kennen with Ezreal
How to Synergize Kennen and Ezreal
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Kennen Ezreal Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Ezreal Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Ezreal
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Ezreal
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 Ezreal Will Play
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
Kennen Ezreal Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ezreal as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Ezreal synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ezreal, 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 Ezreal. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ezreal helps Kennen perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Ezreal, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Ezreal does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Ezreal on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ezreal.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Ezreal on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Ezreal does a poor job of covering Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Ezreal
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Ezreal?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Kennen that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Ezreal is a terrible companion for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, he lowers their win rate by -4.4% to 44.2%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Kennen and Ezreal that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Ezreal has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you must be careful when lining up Ezreal allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Kennen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Kennen and Ezreal together, you may not be giving your side a lot of cover. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Ezreal teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to synergize with Ezreal during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Kennen and Ezreal synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Ezreal than with most other common builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 44.2% when playing alongside Ezreal with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.2% win rate overall.
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