Zilean vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Zilean
based on 488 Zilean vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Kennen
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some influential Zilean vs. Kennen counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kennen. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Zilean usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Kennen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Kennen
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Who is Better, Zilean or Kennen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zilean usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kennen, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Zilean makes an ok counter for Kennen.
While Zilean does have a lower winrate than Kennen, when they face off with one another, Zilean also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zilean into Kennen.
Moreover, Zilean also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kennen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Kennen matchups, Kennen is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zilean is a somewhat poor counter to Kennen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zilean against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zilean to counter Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean typically racks up less CS relative to Kennen. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Zilean versus Kennen build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Kennen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when countering Kennen with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Kennen as Zilean, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Zilean vs Kennen LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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