Kennen vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Kennen
based on 1,130 Kennen vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Nami
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 Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Kennen vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some important Kennen against Nami counter stats that can help you understand the distinctions between this set of champs. Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nami. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kennen often has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nami. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Nami
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Who is Better, Kennen or Nami?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Nami, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Kennen makes an ok counter to Nami.
While Kennen does have a lower winrate compared to Nami, when they face off with one another, Kennen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kennen into Nami.
Moreover, Kennen has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kennen is a somewhat poor counter to Nami. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kennen against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to counter Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen on average gets much more CS as Nami. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Kennen versus Nami build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Kennen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Nami than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 49.6% battling Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Nami 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Kennen vs Nami counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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