Bard vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Bard
based on 1,134 Bard vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Kennen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Kennen
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some critical Bard versus Kennen matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kennen. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Bard often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Kennen
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Who is Better, Bard or Kennen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Kennen, with a 53.1% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter for Kennen.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Kennen, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Kennenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Kennen matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Bard is a great counter for Kennen. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often gets a lot less CS as Kennen. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Bard versus Kennen build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Kennen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 53.1% battling Kennen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Kennen as Bard, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Bard vs Kennen face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.1% win rate overall.
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