Kennen vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Kennen
based on 644 Kennen vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Kennen vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here show some valuable Kennen against Jayce matchup stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jayce’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Jayce..
Kennen often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Jayce. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Jayce
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Who is Better, Kennen or Jayce?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually wins when trying to fight Jayce, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Kennen makes a good counter to Jayce.
While Kennen does have a higher win rate compared to Jayce, when facing one another, Kennen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kennen into Jayce.
Additionally, Kennen also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jayce. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Jayce matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kennen is a decent counter for Jayce. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kennen against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to counter Jayce 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 mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Jayce. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Kennen versus Jayce build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Jayce than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 51.7% battling Jayce with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Jayce 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. Of all the rune builds players used for Kennen vs Jayce face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Jayce as Kennen are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.