Katarina vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Katarina
based on 1,480 Katarina vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Kennen
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Katarina against Kennen counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kennen. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives more damage than Kennen. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Kennen
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Who is Better, Katarina or Kennen?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kennen, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes an ok counter for Kennen.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate compared to Kennen, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Kennenas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Kennen matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Kennen. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often picks up a similar amount of CS as 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 well off of their abilities 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 situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Kennen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better versus Kennen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when countering Kennen with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Kennen as Katarina, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Katarina vs Kennen matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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