Kennen vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Kennen
based on 588 Kennen vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against K'Sante
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 K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Kennen vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here show some vital Kennen versus K'Sante counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than K'Sante..
Kennen normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than K'Sante. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Kennen or K'Sante?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually fairs equally well when trying to fight K'Sante, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes an ok counter for K'Sante.
While Kennen does have a lower winrate compared to K'Sante, when facing one another, Kennen also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Kennen into K'Sante.
Additionally, Kennen also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Kennen vs K'Sante matchups, K'Sante is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kennen is a somewhat poor counter for K'Sante. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kennen against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kennen in order to counter K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as K'Sante. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Kennen versus K'Sante build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs K'Sante than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when playing against K'Sante with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing K'Sante as Kennen, you should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Kennen vs K'Sante battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
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