Kennen vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Kennen
based on 1,358 Kennen vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Riven
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 Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Kennen vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several important Kennen against Riven matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Riven..
Kennen normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Riven. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Riven
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Who is Better, Kennen or Riven?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kennen usually fairs equally well when taking on Riven, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes an ok counter for Riven.
While Kennen does have a higher win rate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Kennen also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kennen into Riven.
Additionally, Kennen has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Riven matchups, Kennen is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kennen is a decent counter to Riven. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kennen against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to counter Riven during both the lane 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 tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Riven. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Kennen versus Riven build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Riven than with most other common builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Riven 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. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Kennen vs Riven counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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