Zed vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Zed
based on 1,474 Zed vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Kennen
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some significant Zed against Kennen matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kennen..
Zed normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Kennen
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Who is Better, Zed or Kennen?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually wins when facing off against Kennen, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a good counter to Kennen.
While Zed does have a higher win rate compared to Kennen, when facing one another, Zed also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Kennenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also has almost no 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 in League of Legends, in Zed vs Kennen matchups, Zed is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zed is a decent counter to Kennen. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zed against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kennen. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zed versus Kennen build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Kennen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 51.0% battling Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Kennen as Zed, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Zed vs Kennen face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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