Kennen vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Kennen
based on 445 Kennen vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Aphelios
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
Advice to Win Against Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Kennen vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Kennen in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several valuable Kennen versus Aphelios matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
Kennen normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Kennen or Aphelios?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually wins when playing against Aphelios, with a 53.7% win rate. Therefore, Kennen makes a great counter for Aphelios.
While Kennen does have a higher win rate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Kennen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Kennen into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Kennen also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Aphelios matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kennen is a great counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kennen against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kennen to counter Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kennen versus Aphelios build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Kennen bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Aphelios than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 53.7% battling Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Aphelios as Kennen, Kennen players should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Kennen vs Aphelios LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.7% winrate overall.
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