Kennen vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Kennen
based on 1,134 Kennen vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Bard
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Kennen vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Kennen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several valuable Kennen versus Bard matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Kennen often has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Bard
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Who is Better, Kennen or Bard?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kennen usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Kennen makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Kennen does have a lower win rate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Kennen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kennen into Bard.
Furthermore, Kennen also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This 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 Kennen vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kennen is a terribly counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kennen against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to counter Bard during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen usually racks up much more CS as Bard. Champions who typically don't get much CS often 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kennen versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Bard than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when playing against Bard with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Bard as Kennen, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kennen vs Bard matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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