Kennen with Xayah
How to Synergize Kennen and Xayah
based on 632 Kennen with Xayah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Kennen Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xayah helps Kennen perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Xayah, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may indicate that Xayah does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Xayah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xayah.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Xayah on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Xayah does a decent job of covering Kennen during team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Xayah
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no perfect ally for Kennen that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Xayah is a below average teammate for Kennen. By locking into the same team as Kennen, she decreases their win rate by -2.6% to 46.0%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Kennen and Xayah that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Xayah has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you must be careful when enlisting Xayah teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Kennen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Kennen and Xayah together, you will not be granting your side very much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Xayah teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 work well with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Kennen and Xayah synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Xayah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 46.0% when playing alongside Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kennen and Xayah pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Xayah with Kennen are displayed for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.