Kennen vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Kennen
based on 555 Kennen vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Kennen vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Kennen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some influential Kennen versus Kassadin counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champions. Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kassadin..
Kennen typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kassadin. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Kennen or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kennen usually loses when facing off against Kassadin, with a 46.1% win rate. Therefore, Kennen makes a bad counter for Kassadin.
While Kennen does have a lower win rate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Kennen also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Kennen into Kassadin.
Moreover, Kennen also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kennen is a bad counter for Kassadin. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kennen against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kennen to counter Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Kassadin. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Kennen versus Kassadin build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Kassadin than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 46.1% when countering Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Kassadin 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 runes that we analyzed for Kennen vs Kassadin face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kassadin as Kennen are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.