Gnar vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Gnar
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Gnar vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Kennen
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several vital Gnar vs. Kennen matchup stats that may help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kennen..
Gnar usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Kennen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Kennen
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Who is Better, Gnar or Kennen?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when taking on Kennen, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a poor counter to Kennen.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate than Kennen, when facing one another, Gnar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Kennenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar has some 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Kennen matchups, Kennen is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Kennen. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar 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 tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kennen. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Gnar versus Kennen build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Kennen than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Kennen with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Kennen as Gnar, Gnar players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Gnar vs Kennen LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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