Kennen vs Warwick
How to Beat Warwick as Kennen
based on 1,634 Kennen vs Warwick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Warwick Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Warwick as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Warwick
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 Warwick
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
Kennen vs Warwick Counter Stats
How to Counter Warwick with Kennen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several critical Kennen against Warwick counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the pair. Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Warwick’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Warwick..
Kennen usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Warwick. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Warwick
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Who is Better, Kennen or Warwick?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually fairs equally well when taking on Warwick, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes an ok counter for Warwick.
While Kennen does have a higher winrate compared to Warwick, when facing one another, Kennen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kennen into Warwick.
Additionally, Kennen has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Warwick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Warwick matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kennen is a decent counter to Warwick. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kennen against Warwick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to counter Warwick 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 suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen on average picks up more CS relative to Warwick. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Kennen versus Warwick build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Shadowflame. When Kennen included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Warwick than with many other common builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 50.9% when countering Warwick with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Warwick as Kennen, you 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 picked for Kennen vs Warwick battles, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
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