Amumu vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Amumu
based on 606 Amumu vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Kennen
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Amumu in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some valuable Amumu against Kennen counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kennen. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Amumu normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kennen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Amumu and Kennen
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Who is Better, Amumu or Kennen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually wins when facing off against Kennen, with a 56.9% win rate. Therefore, Amumu makes a fantastic counter for Kennen.
While Amumu does have a much higher winrate compared to Kennen, when they face off with one another, Amumu also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Amumu into Kennen.
Furthermore, Amumu has a great deal 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 overall in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Kennen matchups, Amumu is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Amumu is a great counter for Kennen. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to counter Kennen during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu often picks up a lot less CS compared to Kennen. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Amumu versus Kennen build include Jak'Sho, The Protean, Sunfire Aegis, and Demonic Embrace. When Amumu included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Kennen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 56.9% battling Kennen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Kennen as Amumu, Amumu players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Amumu vs Kennen fights, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 56.9% winrate overall.
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