Nasus vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Nasus
based on 1,339 Nasus vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Kennen
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some significant Nasus versus Kennen matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kennen..
Nasus often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Kennen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Kennen
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Who is Better, Nasus or Kennen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when playing against Kennen, with a 57.8% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a fantastic counter to Kennen.
While Nasus does have a much higher winrate compared to Kennen, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Kennen.
Furthermore, Nasus also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Kennen matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nasus is a great counter for Kennen. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to counter Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Kennen. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many 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 Nasus versus Kennen build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Kennen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 57.8% when playing against Kennen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Kennen as Nasus, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Nasus vs Kennen face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 57.8% win rate overall.
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