Darius vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Darius
based on 1,483 Darius vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Kennen
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Darius in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some important Darius against Kennen matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kennen..
Darius usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Kennen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Darius and Kennen
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Who is Better, Darius or Kennen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Darius usually fairs equally well when taking on Kennen, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Darius makes an ok counter for Kennen.
While Darius does have a higher winrate compared to Kennen, when facing one another, Darius also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Darius into Kennen.
Moreover, Darius has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Darius vs Kennen matchups, Darius is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Darius is a decent counter for Kennen. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Darius against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Darius 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Kennen. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Darius versus Kennen build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Darius used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Kennen than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Darius had an average winrate of 50.5% battling Kennen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Kennen as Darius, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Darius vs Kennen counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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