Heimerdinger vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Heimerdinger
based on 644 Heimerdinger vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Kennen
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown here feature some vital Heimerdinger versus Kennen counter stats that can help you understand the differences between the two. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kennen..
Heimerdinger normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Kennen
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Kennen?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually wins when taking on Kennen, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Heimerdinger makes a good counter for Kennen.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher win rate than Kennen, when they face off with one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Heimerdinger into Kennenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Heimerdinger has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Kennen matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Heimerdinger is a decent counter to Kennen. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Heimerdinger in order to counter Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Kennen. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Heimerdinger versus Kennen build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Kennen than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Kennen as Heimerdinger, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Heimerdinger vs Kennen LoL games, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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