Kennen vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Kennen
based on 354 Kennen vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Kennen vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Kennen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Kennen versus Kalista matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Kennen normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Kalista
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Who is Better, Kennen or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually loses when playing against Kalista, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes a bad counter for Kalista.
While Kennen does have a lower win rate than Kalista, when facing one another, Kennen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kennen into Kalista.
Furthermore, Kennen has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kennen is a somewhat poor counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kennen against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kennen versus Kalista build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Kalista than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 48.9% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Kalista as Kennen, Kennen players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Kennen vs Kalista clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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