Kennen vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Kennen
based on 644 Kennen vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Kennen vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here show several strategic Kennen versus Heimerdinger counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champions. Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Heimerdinger..
Kennen normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Heimerdinger. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Kennen or Heimerdinger?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually loses when trying to fight Heimerdinger, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Kennen makes a bad counter for Heimerdinger.
While Kennen does have a lower winrate compared to Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Kennen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Kennen into Heimerdinger.
Furthermore, Kennen also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kennen is a somewhat poor counter for Heimerdinger. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kennen against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kennen to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Heimerdinger. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Kennen versus Heimerdinger build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Heimerdinger than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Heimerdinger 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 chose for Kennen vs Heimerdinger counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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