Brand vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Brand
based on 2,422 Brand vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Kennen
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some influential Brand versus Kennen counter statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kennen..
Brand usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Kennen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Kennen
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Who is Better, Brand or Kennen?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when trying to fight Kennen, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a good counter for Kennen.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Kennen, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Brand into Kennen.
Furthermore, Brand also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This 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 in League of Legends, in Brand vs Kennen matchups, Brand is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Brand is a decent counter to Kennen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often racks up less CS relative to Kennen. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Brand versus Kennen build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Kennen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 51.8% when countering Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Kennen as Brand, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Brand vs Kennen fights, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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