Kennen vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Kennen
based on 1,253 Kennen vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Kennen vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here feature some critical Kennen against Irelia counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Irelia..
Kennen often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Irelia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Irelia
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Who is Better, Kennen or Irelia?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kennen usually loses when playing against Irelia, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Kennen makes a bad counter to Irelia.
While Kennen does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when facing one another, Kennen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kennen into Irelia.
Furthermore, Kennen has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kennen is a somewhat poor counter to Irelia. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kennen against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kennen versus Irelia build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Irelia than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when playing against Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Irelia as Kennen, you should take 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 combinations we have analyed for Kennen vs Irelia counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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