Kennen with Zac
How to Synergize Kennen and Zac
based on 792 Kennen with Zac pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Zac Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Zac
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Kennen Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zac helps Kennen perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Zac, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could signal that Zac does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Zac 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 synergisticly with Zac.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Zac on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Zac does a decent job of protecting Kennen in teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Zac
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Zac?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Zac is a very typical companion for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 48.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Kennen and Zac that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zac has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Zac comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kennen and Zac together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Zac ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 pair well with Zac during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kennen and Zac synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Zac than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 48.0% helping carry Zac with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating 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 runes players used for Kennen and Zac pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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