Kennen with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Kennen and Xin Zhao
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Kennen Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Kennen Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Kennen perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Xin Zhao doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Kennen during team fights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no top synergy for Kennen that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a fantastic companion for Kennen. By locking into the same team as Kennen, he improves their win rate by 5.6% to 54.2%. This demonstrates that there is an important bond between Kennen and Xin Zhao that results in them performing better together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Kennen and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your 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 learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to work well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Kennen and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 54.2% helping carry Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Kennen players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.2% winrate overall.
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