Kennen vs Qiyana
How to Beat Qiyana as Kennen
based on 523 Kennen vs Qiyana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Qiyana Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Qiyana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Qiyana as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Qiyana
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.
Kennen vs Qiyana Counter Stats
How to Counter Qiyana with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here show some critical Kennen vs. Qiyana counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Qiyana’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Qiyana..
Kennen normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Qiyana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Qiyana
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Who is Better, Kennen or Qiyana?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually loses when trying to fight Qiyana, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes a poor counter to Qiyana.
While Kennen does have a lower win rate compared to Qiyana, when on opposite teams, Kennen also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kennen into Qiyana.
Additionally, Kennen has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Qiyana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Qiyana matchups, Qiyana is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kennen is a trash counter to Qiyana. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kennen against Qiyana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kennen to counter Qiyana during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Qiyana. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kennen versus Qiyana build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Qiyana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing against Qiyana with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Qiyana 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 players chose for Kennen vs Qiyana clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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