Akali vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Akali
based on 2,664 Akali vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Kennen
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several influential Akali vs. Kennen matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between this set of champs. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kennen..
Akali normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes more damage than Kennen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Kennen
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Who is Better, Akali or Kennen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when playing against Kennen, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes a poor counter for Kennen.
While Akali does have a lower win rate than Kennen, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Akali into Kennenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Kennen matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Kennen. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter Kennen during both the early game 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 tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kennen. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Akali versus Kennen build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Kennen than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 48.3% battling Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Kennen as Akali, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Akali vs Kennen fights, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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