Vayne vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Vayne
based on 2,174 Vayne vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Kennen
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Vayne in LoL
The stats shown here feature some critical Vayne against Kennen matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kennen..
Vayne typically has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Kennen
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Who is Better, Vayne or Kennen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vayne usually wins when trying to fight Kennen, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes a good counter for Kennen.
While Vayne does have a higher win rate than Kennen, when they face off with one another, Vayne also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Vayne into Kennenas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne also has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 overall in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Kennen matchups, Vayne is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vayne is a decent counter to Kennen. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vayne against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vayne 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kennen. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Vayne versus Kennen build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Vayne bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Kennen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vayne had an average win rate of 51.6% battling Kennen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Kennen as Vayne, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Vayne vs Kennen counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
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