Ahri vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Ahri
based on 1,163 Ahri vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Kennen
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Ahri against Kennen counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kennen..
Ahri normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, 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 agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Kennen
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Who is Better, Ahri or Kennen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kennen, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes an ok counter to Kennen.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate than Kennen, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Kennen.
Additionally, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Kennen matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Kennen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ahri to counter Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Kennen. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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 case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Ahri versus Kennen build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Kennen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 49.3% battling Kennen with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Kennen as Ahri, Ahri players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Ahri vs Kennen fights, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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