Kennen vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Kennen
based on 2,070 Kennen vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Nocturne
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 Nocturne
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
Kennen vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here feature some vital Kennen versus Nocturne counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between this set of champs. Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nocturne..
Kennen typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nocturne. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Kennen or Nocturne?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually loses when facing off against Nocturne, with a 46.9% win rate. As a result, Kennen makes a bad counter to Nocturne.
While Kennen does have a lower winrate compared to Nocturne, when facing one another, Kennen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kennen into Nocturne.
Furthermore, Kennen has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kennen is a trash counter to Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kennen against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kennen in order to counter Nocturne during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen most often accumulates much more CS as Nocturne. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Kennen versus Nocturne build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Kennen used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Nocturne than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 46.9% battling Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Nocturne as Kennen, you should use 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 sets players picked for Kennen vs Nocturne matchups, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
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