Tristana vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Tristana
based on 1,284 Tristana vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Kennen
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Tristana versus Kennen matchup stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kennen..
Tristana normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Kennen
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Who is Better, Tristana or Kennen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tristana usually loses when taking on Kennen, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes a bad counter to Kennen.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Kennen, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Kennen.
Additionally, Tristana has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Kennen matchups, Kennen is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Kennen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana to counter Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana often picks up a similar amount of CS as Kennen. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Tristana versus Kennen build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Kennen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing against Kennen with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Kennen as Tristana, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Tristana vs Kennen counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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