Kennen vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Kennen
based on 2,984 Kennen vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Jax
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 Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Kennen vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here show several strategic Kennen against Jax matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jax’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Jax..
Kennen typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Jax. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Jax
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Who is Better, Kennen or Jax?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually loses when facing off against Jax, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Kennen makes a poor counter for Jax.
While Kennen does have a lower win rate than Jax, when they face off with one another, Kennen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kennen into Jax.
Moreover, Kennen has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jax. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Jax matchups, Jax is the better champion with a 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 garbage counter to Jax. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kennen against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to counter Jax during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Jax. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kennen versus Jax build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Jax than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Jax with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Jax as Kennen, Kennen players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kennen vs Jax counters, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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