Kennen vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Kennen
based on 664 Kennen vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Azir Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Kennen Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Azir as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Azir
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Advice to Win Against Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Kennen vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Kennen versus Azir matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Azir..
Kennen normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Azir
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Kennen or Azir?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kennen usually loses when taking on Azir, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Kennen makes a poor counter for Azir.
While Kennen does have a lower winrate compared to Azir, when they face off with one another, Kennen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kennen into Azir.
Moreover, Kennen also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Kennen is a garbage counter to Azir. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kennen against Azir.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kennen
Additional Information for Kennen Players
How We Calculated Our Kennen vs Azir Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kennen in order to counter Azir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather 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.
Kennen typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Azir. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kennen versus Azir build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Azir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 47.3% battling Azir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Azir as Kennen, you should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Kennen vs Azir matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.3% win rate overall.
If you want to get Kennen vs Azir tips and counter builds for a a specific division rank, feel free to select one from the selection menu shown above. If viewing for the first time, the statistics and strategies shown are computed using all matches finished with both champs.