Riven vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Riven
based on 1,358 Riven vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Kennen
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Riven versus Kennen matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kennen..
Riven often has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes more damage than Kennen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Kennen
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Who is Better, Riven or Kennen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when playing against Kennen, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter for Kennen.
While Riven does have a lower winrate than Kennen, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Kennenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Kennen matchups, Kennen is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter for Kennen. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven 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 suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kennen. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Riven versus Kennen build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Kennen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when countering Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Kennen as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Riven vs Kennen counters, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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