Kayle vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Kayle
based on 1,121 Kayle vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Kennen
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some significant Kayle versus Kennen matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kennen..
Kayle normally has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Kennen
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Who is Better, Kayle or Kennen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when playing against Kennen, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a good counter for Kennen.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate compared to Kennen, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kayle into Kennenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Kennen matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kayle is a decent counter for Kennen. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kayle against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayle in order to counter Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Kennen. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Kayle versus Kennen build include Wit's End, Nashor's Tooth, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kayle incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Kennen than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 51.7% when countering Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Kennen as Kayle, Kayle players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kayle vs Kennen fights, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.7% win rate overall.
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