Kennen vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Kennen
based on 449 Kennen vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Kennen vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some influential Kennen vs. Taliyah matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah..
Kennen normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Kennen or Taliyah?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually loses when facing off against Taliyah, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes a poor counter for Taliyah.
While Kennen does have a lower winrate compared to Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Kennen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kennen into Taliyah.
Moreover, Kennen has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kennen is a somewhat poor counter for Taliyah. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kennen against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kennen in order to counter Taliyah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Taliyah. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kennen versus Taliyah build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Taliyah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 48.3% when countering Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Taliyah as Kennen, Kennen players should take 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 runes we have analyed for Kennen vs Taliyah counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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