Naafiri vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Naafiri
based on 520 Naafiri vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Kennen
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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.
Naafiri vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Naafiri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some important Naafiri versus Kennen counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Kennen..
Naafiri usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their foe does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Kennen. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Naafiri and Kennen
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Kennen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kennen, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes an ok counter to Kennen.
While Naafiri does have a higher winrate compared to Kennen, when on opposite teams, Naafiri also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Naafiri into Kennen.
Furthermore, Naafiri 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 facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Kennen matchups, Naafiri is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Naafiri is a decent counter to Kennen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Naafiri against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to counter Kennen 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Kennen. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Naafiri versus Kennen build consist of Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri included at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better vs Kennen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 50.2% when countering Kennen with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Kennen as Naafiri, Naafiri players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Naafiri vs Kennen battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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