Kennen vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Kennen
based on 1,051 Kennen vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Karma
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 Karma
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
Kennen vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Kennen against Karma matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Karma. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Kennen usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Karma. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Karma
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Who is Better, Kennen or Karma?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kennen usually loses when facing off against Karma, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Kennen makes a poor counter for Karma.
While Kennen does have a lower win rate than Karma, when facing one another, Kennen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Kennen into Karma.
Moreover, Kennen also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champ 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 terribly counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kennen against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen often accumulates more CS as Karma. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kennen versus Karma build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Kennen included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Karma than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Karma with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Karma as Kennen, Kennen players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Kennen vs Karma counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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