Kai'Sa vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Kai'Sa
based on 1,708 Kai'Sa vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Kennen
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several vital Kai'Sa vs. Kennen counter statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kennen..
Kai'Sa usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Kennen
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Kennen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Kennen, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Kennen.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate compared to Kennen, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Kai'Sa into Kennen.
Additionally, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Kennen matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter to Kennen. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kennen. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Kennen build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Kennen than with many other common builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 48.1% battling Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Kennen as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Kennen battles, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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