Veigar vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Veigar
based on 1,321 Veigar vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Kennen
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Veigar versus Kennen counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kennen..
Veigar usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Kennen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Kennen
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Who is Better, Veigar or Kennen?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when playing against Kennen, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes an ok counter for Kennen.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate compared to Kennen, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Kennenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Veigar has a good amount 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Kennen matchups, Kennen is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter for Kennen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kennen. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Kennen build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Kennen than with many other common builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 49.5% battling Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Kennen as Veigar, Veigar players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Veigar vs Kennen counters, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kennen as Veigar are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.