Kennen vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Kennen
based on 369 Kennen vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Kennen vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Kennen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some significant Kennen vs. Cassiopeia counter statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Cassiopeia..
Kennen typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Cassiopeia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Kennen or Cassiopeia?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kennen usually loses when trying to fight Cassiopeia, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes a poor counter for Cassiopeia.
While Kennen does have a lower winrate compared to Cassiopeia, when they face off with one another, Kennen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kennen into Cassiopeia.
Furthermore, Kennen has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kennen is a terribly counter for Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kennen against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to counter Cassiopeia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Cassiopeia. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Kennen versus Cassiopeia build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Cassiopeia than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 46.9% battling Cassiopeia with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Cassiopeia 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 builds players used for Kennen vs Cassiopeia counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Cassiopeia as Kennen are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.