Thresh vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Thresh
based on 1,604 Thresh vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Kennen
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several critical Thresh vs. Kennen matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kennen. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Kennen
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Who is Better, Thresh or Kennen?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kennen, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes an ok counter to Kennen.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Kennen, when facing one another, Thresh also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Kennenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh also has a great 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh 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 team members during team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Kennen. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Kennen. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Kennen build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Kennen than with many other common builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when countering Kennen with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Kennen as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Thresh vs Kennen LoL games, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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