Alistar vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Alistar
based on 436 Alistar vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Kennen
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several influential Alistar against Kennen matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences between these two champions. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kennen. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Kennen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Kennen
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Who is Better, Alistar or Kennen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually wins when facing off against Kennen, with a 58.5% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a fantastic counter for Kennen.
While Alistar does have a much higher win rate compared to Kennen, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Alistar into Kennenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Kennen matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Alistar is a great counter to Kennen. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually accumulates a lot less CS relative to Kennen. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Kennen build consist of Evenshroud, Knight's Vow, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Alistar included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Kennen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 58.5% when playing against Kennen with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Kennen as Alistar, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Alistar vs Kennen fights, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 58.5% win rate overall.
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