Malzahar vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Malzahar
based on 1,228 Malzahar vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Kennen
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Malzahar in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several important Malzahar against Kennen matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kennen..
Malzahar often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Kennen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Kennen
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Kennen?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when facing off against Kennen, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes a good counter for Kennen.
While Malzahar does have a higher win rate than Kennen, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Malzahar into Kennen.
Additionally, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Kennen matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Malzahar is an above average counter to Kennen. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to counter Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Kennen. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Malzahar versus Kennen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Kennen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 52.2% battling Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Kennen as Malzahar, Malzahar players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Malzahar vs Kennen counters, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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