Kennen vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Kennen
based on 397 Kennen vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Kennen vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Kennen against Ryze matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ryze..
Kennen normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Ryze. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Ryze
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Who is Better, Kennen or Ryze?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ryze, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Kennen makes an ok counter to Ryze.
While Kennen does have a lower winrate than Ryze, when on opposite teams, Kennen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kennen into Ryze.
Furthermore, Kennen also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champ 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 Ryze. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kennen against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kennen in order to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen usually gets a similar amount of CS as Ryze. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kennen versus Ryze build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Ryze than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 49.6% battling Ryze with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Ryze as Kennen, Kennen players 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 sets players chose for Kennen vs Ryze counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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