Kennen vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Kennen
based on 895 Kennen vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Yorick
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 Yorick
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
Kennen vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Kennen in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some significant Kennen vs. Yorick matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Yorick..
Kennen typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Yorick. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Yorick
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Who is Better, Kennen or Yorick?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kennen usually loses when trying to fight Yorick, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes a bad counter for Yorick.
While Kennen does have a lower winrate compared to Yorick, when on opposite teams, Kennen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kennen into Yorick.
Moreover, Kennen has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kennen is a bad counter to Yorick. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kennen against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Yorick. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have 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, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kennen versus Yorick build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Yorick than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Yorick with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Yorick as Kennen, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Kennen vs Yorick counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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