Kennen with Jax
How to Synergize Kennen and Jax
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Kennen Jax Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Jax
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Jax
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 Jax Will Play
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.
Kennen Jax Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jax as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Jax. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jax helps Kennen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Jax, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may signal that Jax supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Jax 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 Jax.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Jax on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Jax does a poor job of protecting Kennen during team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Jax
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Jax?
There is no perfect companion for Kennen that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Jax is a pretty good companion for Kennen. By being on the same side as Kennen, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 49.6%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Kennen and Jax that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Jax has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players need to be very careful when arranging Jax comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Kennen and Jax together, you will not be granting your team enough tankyness. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Jax teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Kennen to pair well with Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Kennen and Jax synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Jax than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jax with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Kennen and Jax pairings, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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