Kennen vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Kennen
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Kennen vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Gnar
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 Gnar
Gnar's ultimate stuns if he hits you into a wall. Be careful when fighting him near one.
Gnar's animations and resource bar change as he gets closer to transforming.
Gnar can't gain Rage for 15 seconds after he turns from big to little. Use this chance to engage on his team.
Kennen vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Kennen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some critical Kennen versus Gnar matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. For instance, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gnar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Gnar..
Kennen typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Gnar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Gnar
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Who is Better, Kennen or Gnar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually wins when playing against Gnar, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Kennen makes a good counter to Gnar.
While Kennen does have a higher winrate than Gnar, when facing one another, Kennen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kennen into Gnar.
Additionally, Kennen also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gnar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Gnar matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kennen is a decent counter for Gnar. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kennen against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to counter Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Gnar. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kennen versus Gnar build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Gnar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 51.5% battling Gnar with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Gnar as Kennen, Kennen players should take the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Kennen vs Gnar counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Gnar as Kennen are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.