Kennen vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Kennen
based on 1,284 Kennen vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Kennen vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Kennen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some vital Kennen vs. Tristana matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Tristana..
Kennen often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Tristana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Tristana
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Who is Better, Kennen or Tristana?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually wins when trying to fight Tristana, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes a good counter to Tristana.
While Kennen does have a higher win rate than Tristana, when they face off with one another, Kennen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kennen into Tristana.
Additionally, Kennen also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Tristana matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kennen is a decent counter for Tristana. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kennen against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kennen to counter Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Tristana. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kennen versus Tristana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Tristana than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 51.2% when countering Tristana with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Tristana 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for Kennen vs Tristana face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
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