K'Sante vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as K'Sante
based on 588 K'Sante vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Kennen
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Advice to Win Against Kennen
Consider playing a bit more cautiously around Kennen when you have a Mark of the Storm debuff. If he hits you with 3 Marks of the Storm, you will get stunned.
Kennen is flimsy by nature - turn and attack him if he gets careless with Lightning Rush.
K'Sante vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some vital K'Sante versus Kennen counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Kennen..
K'Sante typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their enemy does. Typically, they receives more damage than Kennen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Kennen
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Kennen?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kennen, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes an ok counter to Kennen.
While K'Sante does have a higher winrate than Kennen, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking K'Sante into Kennenas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Kennen matchups, K'Sante is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
K'Sante is a decent counter for Kennen. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante to counter Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kennen. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your K'Sante versus Kennen build include Iceborn Gauntlet, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better versus Kennen than with most other typical builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 50.5% battling Kennen with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Kennen as K'Sante, K'Sante players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for K'Sante vs Kennen clashes, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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