Nidalee vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Nidalee
based on 289 Nidalee vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Kennen
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several strategic Nidalee vs. Kennen counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kennen..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she takes more damage than Kennen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Kennen
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Kennen?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Kennen, with a 41.9% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Kennen.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Kennen, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Kennenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Kennen matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Kennen. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee to counter Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often gets a lot less CS relative to Kennen. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nidalee versus Kennen build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Kennen than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 41.9% battling Kennen with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Kennen as Nidalee, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Nidalee vs Kennen counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 41.9% win rate overall.
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