Jarvan IV vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Jarvan IV
based on 551 Jarvan IV vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jarvan IV vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Jarvan IV vs Kennen Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Jarvan IV Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Kennen as Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV against Kennen
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
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.
Jarvan IV vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Jarvan IV in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Jarvan IV versus Kennen matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jarvan IV may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kennen. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Jarvan IV usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Kennen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jarvan IV and Kennen
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Jarvan IV or Kennen?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jarvan IV usually fairs equally well when taking on Kennen, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Jarvan IV makes an ok counter to Kennen.
While Jarvan IV does have a higher win rate compared to Kennen, when they face off with one another, Jarvan IV also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Jarvan IV into Kennen.
Furthermore, Jarvan IV 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jarvan IV vs Kennen matchups, Jarvan IV is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Jarvan IV is a decent counter for Kennen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Jarvan IV against Kennen.
Other Champion Matchups Against Jarvan IV
Additional Information for Jarvan IV Players
How We Calculated Our Jarvan IV vs Kennen Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jarvan IV to counter Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jarvan IV most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Kennen. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Jarvan IV versus Kennen build include Experimental Hexplate, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Kennen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jarvan IV had an average winrate of 50.5% when playing against Kennen with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Kennen as Jarvan IV, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Jarvan IV vs Kennen counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kennen as Jarvan IV are shown for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.