Kennen vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Kennen
based on 1,255 Kennen vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Kennen vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Kennen in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several valuable Kennen versus Garen matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Kennen often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Garen
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Who is Better, Kennen or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually loses when trying to fight Garen, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Kennen makes a poor counter to Garen.
While Kennen does have a lower win rate than Garen, when facing one another, Kennen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kennen into Garen.
Furthermore, Kennen has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kennen is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kennen against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kennen in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Kennen versus Garen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Garen than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 48.5% battling Garen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Garen as Kennen, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Kennen vs Garen battles, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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