Lux vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Lux
based on 3,954 Lux vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Kennen
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Advice to Win Against Kennen
Consider playing a bit more cautiously around Kennen when you have a Mark of the Storm debuff. If he hits you with 3 Marks of the Storm, you will get stunned.
Kennen is flimsy by nature - turn and attack him if he gets careless with Lightning Rush.
Lux vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Lux in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Lux vs. Kennen counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kennen. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Lux often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Kennen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Kennen
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Who is Better, Lux or Kennen?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lux usually wins when facing off against Kennen, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Lux makes a good counter for Kennen.
While Lux does have a higher win rate than Kennen, when facing one another, Lux also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Lux into Kennen.
Furthermore, Lux has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kennen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Kennen matchups, Lux is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lux is a decent counter for Kennen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lux against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lux to counter Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux typically gets less CS relative to Kennen. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Lux versus Kennen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Lux used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Kennen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 51.7% battling Kennen with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Kennen as Lux, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Lux vs Kennen face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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