Kennen vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Kennen
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Kennen vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Kennen vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Kennen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some important Kennen vs. Elise matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between these two champs. Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Elise..
Kennen normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Elise. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Elise
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Who is Better, Kennen or Elise?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Elise, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Kennen makes an ok counter for Elise.
While Kennen does have a lower win rate compared to Elise, when they face off with one another, Kennen also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kennen into Elise.
Furthermore, Kennen has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Elise matchups, Elise is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kennen is a somewhat poor counter to Elise. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kennen against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up 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 significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen usually gets much more CS compared to Elise. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kennen versus Elise build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Elise than with many other common builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Elise as Kennen, Kennen players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kennen vs Elise battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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