Kennen vs Senna
How to Beat Senna as Kennen
based on 2,964 Kennen vs Senna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Senna Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Senna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Senna as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Senna
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 Senna Counter Stats
How to Counter Senna with Kennen in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several valuable Kennen against Senna matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Senna’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Senna..
Kennen often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Senna. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Senna
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Who is Better, Kennen or Senna?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kennen usually loses when trying to fight Senna, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes a bad counter to Senna.
While Kennen does have a lower win rate than Senna, when on opposite teams, Kennen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kennen into Senna.
Furthermore, Kennen has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Senna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Senna matchups, Senna is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kennen is a somewhat poor counter to Senna. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kennen against Senna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kennen in order to counter Senna during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen on average racks up more CS relative to Senna. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kennen versus Senna build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Shadowflame. When Kennen used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Senna than with many other common builds. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Senna with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Senna as Kennen, Kennen players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kennen vs Senna matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.7% winrate overall.
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