Kennen vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Kennen
based on 955 Kennen vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Kennen vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Kennen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several important Kennen versus Soraka matchup statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Kennen often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Soraka. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Soraka
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Who is Better, Kennen or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kennen usually fairs equally well when playing against Soraka, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes an ok counter for Soraka.
While Kennen does have a lower winrate compared to Soraka, when on opposite teams, Kennen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kennen into Soraka.
Additionally, Kennen has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kennen is a somewhat poor counter for Soraka. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kennen against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to counter Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen typically accumulates much more CS compared to Soraka. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Kennen versus Soraka build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Soraka than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when countering Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Soraka as Kennen, you should take 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 Soraka fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
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