Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.
The stats shown on this page emphasize several influential Cassiopeia vs. Kennen matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kennen..
Cassiopeia usually has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Kennen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Cassiopeia usually wins when playing against Kennen, with a 53.1% win rate. As a result, Cassiopeia makes a great counter for Kennen.
While Cassiopeia does have a higher winrate than Kennen, when facing one another, Cassiopeia also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Cassiopeia into Kennenas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Cassiopeia has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Kennen matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Cassiopeia is a great counter for Kennen. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Cassiopeia against Kennen.
To learn all of the intricacies of Cassiopeia in order to counter Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kennen. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Cassiopeia versus Kennen build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Rod of Ages. When Cassiopeia used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Kennen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Cassiopeia had an average winrate of 53.1% battling Kennen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Kennen as Cassiopeia, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Cassiopeia vs Kennen battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kennen as Cassiopeia are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.