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.
The stats shown on this page highlight several critical Rell vs. Kennen counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kennen. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Rell typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rell usually loses when facing off against Kennen, with a 45.6% win rate. Therefore, Rell makes a bad counter to Kennen.
While Rell does have a much lower winrate than Kennen, when facing one another, Rell also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Rell into Kennen.
Furthermore, Rell also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rell vs Kennen matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Rell is a terribly counter for Kennen. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rell against Kennen.
To truly master Rell to counter Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell typically racks up a lot less CS as Kennen. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rell versus Kennen build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Kennen than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Rell boasted an average winrate of 45.6% battling Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Kennen as Rell, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Rell vs Kennen fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kennen as Rell are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.