Kennen vs Zeri
How to Beat Zeri as Kennen
based on 425 Kennen vs Zeri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Zeri Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Zeri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zeri as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Zeri
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.
Kennen vs Zeri Counter Stats
How to Counter Zeri with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some strategic Kennen vs. Zeri counter statistics that may help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zeri’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zeri..
Kennen usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Zeri. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Zeri
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Who is Better, Kennen or Zeri?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually wins when taking on Zeri, with a 54.6% win rate. As a result, Kennen makes a great counter to Zeri.
While Kennen does have a much higher win rate than Zeri, when facing one another, Kennen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kennen into Zeri.
Furthermore, Kennen also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zeri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Zeri matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kennen is a great counter for Zeri. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kennen against Zeri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kennen in order to counter Zeri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Zeri. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kennen versus Zeri build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Zeri than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 54.6% battling Zeri with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Zeri 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 builds players chose for Kennen vs Zeri battles, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.6% winrate overall.
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