Nilah vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Nilah
based on 622 Nilah vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nilah vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Nilah vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Nilah
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.
Nilah vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Nilah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several significant Nilah vs. Kennen counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Kennen..
Nilah normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nilah and Kennen
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Who is Better, Nilah or Kennen?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nilah usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kennen, with a 50.8% win rate. As a result, Nilah makes an ok counter to Kennen.
While Nilah does have a higher winrate than Kennen, when on opposite teams, Nilah also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nilah into Kennenas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nilah has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Nilah vs Kennen matchups, Nilah 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.
Nilah is a decent counter to Kennen. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nilah against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nilah to counter Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kennen. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nilah versus Kennen build consist of Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah used at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better vs. Kennen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nilah had an average win rate of 50.8% when countering Kennen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Kennen as Nilah, Nilah players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nilah vs Kennen counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kennen as Nilah are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.