Amumu vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Amumu
based on 968 Amumu vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Kennen
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
Advice to Win Against Kennen
Consider playing a bit more cautiously around Kennen when you have a Mark of the Storm debuff. If he hits you with 3 Marks of the Storm, you will get stunned.
Kennen is flimsy by nature - turn and attack him if he gets careless with Lightning Rush.
Amumu vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Amumu in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several valuable Amumu vs. Kennen counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between these two champions. For instance, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kennen. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Amumu usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Kennen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Amumu and Kennen
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Who is Better, Amumu or Kennen?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Amumu usually wins when playing against Kennen, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Amumu makes a good counter for Kennen.
While Amumu does have a higher win rate than Kennen, when facing one another, Amumu also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Amumu into Kennen.
Moreover, Amumu has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Kennen matchups, Amumu is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Amumu is a decent counter for Kennen. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Amumu against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to counter Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Kennen. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Amumu versus Kennen build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Kennen than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 51.2% battling Kennen with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Kennen as Amumu, Amumu players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Amumu vs Kennen clashes, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.2% win rate overall.
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