Cho'Gath vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Cho'Gath
based on 1,005 Cho'Gath vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cho'Gath vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath against Kennen
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
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.
Cho'Gath vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Cho'Gath in LoL
The stats provided here feature some valuable Cho'Gath vs. Kennen matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kennen..
Cho'Gath typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Kennen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Cho'Gath and Kennen
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Who is Better, Cho'Gath or Kennen?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Cho'Gath usually wins when facing off against Kennen, with a 53.5% win rate. Thus, Cho'Gath makes a great counter for Kennen.
While Cho'Gath does have a higher win rate compared to Kennen, when facing one another, Cho'Gath also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Cho'Gath into Kennen.
Furthermore, Cho'Gath has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Kennen matchups, Cho'Gath 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 late stage team fights.
Cho'Gath is a great counter for Kennen. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Cho'Gath against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Cho'Gath 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath often gets a similar amount of CS as Kennen. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Cho'Gath versus Kennen build include Heartsteel, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Cho'Gath used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Kennen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 53.5% when playing against Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Kennen as Cho'Gath, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Cho'Gath vs Kennen LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.5% winrate overall.
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