Yorick vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Yorick
based on 895 Yorick vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Kennen
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
Yorick vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Yorick in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Yorick versus Kennen counter stats that may help us figure out the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kennen..
Yorick usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kennen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yorick and Kennen
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Who is Better, Yorick or Kennen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yorick usually wins when taking on Kennen, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Yorick makes a good counter for Kennen.
While Yorick does have a higher winrate compared to Kennen, when on opposite teams, Yorick also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Yorick into Kennen.
Furthermore, Yorick also has almost no 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 in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Kennen matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Yorick is a decent counter for Kennen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yorick against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Yorick 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick on average gets a similar amount of CS as Kennen. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Yorick versus Kennen build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Kennen than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 52.0% when countering Kennen with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Kennen as Yorick, Yorick players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Yorick vs Kennen matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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