# Kennen Counters Who counters Kennen? Best and worst picks against Kennen by win rate, plus the lane counters that lead Kennen in gold at 15 minutes. Ranked solo data by role and rank. Canonical HTML: https://baronbuff.com/champions/kennen/counters/ Markdown URL: https://baronbuff.com/champions/kennen/counters.md Language: en ## Breadcrumbs - [Baron Buff](https://baronbuff.com/) - [Champion Tier List](https://baronbuff.com/champions/) - [Kennen](https://baronbuff.com/champions/kennen/) ## Page Content [Kennen guide](https://baronbuff.com/champions/kennen/) [Play against Kennen](https://baronbuff.com/champions/kennen/how-to-play-against/) [Kennen counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/kennen/counters/) Best and worst picks against Kennen in Top at Gold+, ranked by win rate and by gold lead at 15 minutes. Sion, Heimerdinger and Olaf beat Kennen most often. Yorick, Mordekaiser and Aatrox win the laning phase against Kennen by the widest gold margin. ## Best picks against Kennen Highest win rate versus Kennen in Top. - 1 [Sion](https://baronbuff.com/champions/sion/) 121 games 57.0% - 2 [Heimerdinger](https://baronbuff.com/champions/heimerdinger/) 109 games 56.9% - 3 [Olaf](https://baronbuff.com/champions/olaf/) 197 games 56.4% - 4 [Cho'Gath](https://baronbuff.com/champions/chogath/) 192 games 56.2% - 5 [Dr. Mundo](https://baronbuff.com/champions/drmundo/) 256 games 55.9% - 6 [Nasus](https://baronbuff.com/champions/nasus/) 355 games 55.8% - 7 [Yorick](https://baronbuff.com/champions/yorick/) 189 games 55.0% - 8 [Naafiri](https://baronbuff.com/champions/naafiri/) 300 games 53.7% - 9 [Malphite](https://baronbuff.com/champions/malphite/) 479 games 53.6% - 10 [Gragas](https://baronbuff.com/champions/gragas/) 114 games 53.5% - 11 [Gwen](https://baronbuff.com/champions/gwen/) 109 games 53.2% - 12 [Teemo](https://baronbuff.com/champions/teemo/) 432 games 52.8% - 13 [Pantheon](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pantheon/) 181 games 52.5% - 14 [Akali](https://baronbuff.com/champions/akali/) 168 games 52.4% - 15 [Urgot](https://baronbuff.com/champions/urgot/) 155 games 51.6% ## Worst picks against Kennen Lowest win rate versus Kennen in Top. - 1 [Shen](https://baronbuff.com/champions/shen/) 163 games 43.6% - 2 [Fiora](https://baronbuff.com/champions/fiora/) 250 games 44.0% - 3 [Renekton](https://baronbuff.com/champions/renekton/) 236 games 44.5% - 4 [Gnar](https://baronbuff.com/champions/gnar/) 217 games 44.7% - 5 [Singed](https://baronbuff.com/champions/singed/) 117 games 45.3% - 6 [Volibear](https://baronbuff.com/champions/volibear/) 287 games 45.6% - 7 [Darius](https://baronbuff.com/champions/darius/) 450 games 46.4% - 8 [Ambessa](https://baronbuff.com/champions/ambessa/) 155 games 46.5% - 9 [Riven](https://baronbuff.com/champions/riven/) 122 games 46.7% - 10 [Camille](https://baronbuff.com/champions/camille/) 165 games 47.3% - 11 [Tahm Kench](https://baronbuff.com/champions/tahmkench/) 116 games 47.4% - 12 [Ryze](https://baronbuff.com/champions/ryze/) 323 games 47.7% - 13 [Aatrox](https://baronbuff.com/champions/aatrox/) 322 games 47.8% - 14 [Udyr](https://baronbuff.com/champions/udyr/) 161 games 47.8% - 15 [Ornn](https://baronbuff.com/champions/ornn/) 158 games 48.1% ## Best lane counters vs Kennen Largest gold lead over Kennen at 15 minutes in Top. - 1 [Yorick](https://baronbuff.com/champions/yorick/) 100 games +914 - 2 [Mordekaiser](https://baronbuff.com/champions/mordekaiser/) 123 games +190 - 3 [Aatrox](https://baronbuff.com/champions/aatrox/) 108 games +150 - 4 [Nasus](https://baronbuff.com/champions/nasus/) 109 games +100 - 5 [Malphite](https://baronbuff.com/champions/malphite/) 140 games +40 ## How to play against Kennen Lane and teamfight rules that hold regardless of your pick. ### In lane and in teamfights - Keep the wave coming toward you and give up minor CS instead of eating repeated autos. - Punish reset attempts by hard pushing the next wave when he leaves lane low. - Track his flank routes before objectives; he needs fog or Flash to make R hit multiple targets. - Fight after he shows in a side lane or spends R, not while he is missing near river. - Spread before walking into choke points so R cannot stun your whole team. ## Where Kennen is weak Exploit these in draft and in lane. - Kennen's biggest value depends on multi-target ultimate access, so spread formations and controlled flanks blunt his engage. - Kennen is fragile after committing into the enemy team, making failed engage angles hard for him to survive. ## Kennen counters: questions ### Who counters Kennen in Top? At Gold+, Sion (57.0%), Heimerdinger (56.9%) and Olaf (56.4%) have the highest win rates against Kennen. ### Who does Kennen counter? Kennen wins most often against Shen (43.6%), Fiora (44.0%) and Renekton (44.5%). ### Who wins lane against Kennen? By gold lead at 15 minutes, Yorick (+914), Mordekaiser (+190) and Aatrox (+150) come out of the laning phase furthest ahead of Kennen. ### How is the counter list ranked? Best and worst picks use same-lane win rate; lane counters use the average gold difference at 15 minutes between the two laners. Both come from Ranked Solo/Duo at the selected rank with at least 100 games per matchup, and are not adjusted for champion strength. - [Top Tier List](https://baronbuff.com/champions/top/) - [Yorick counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/yorick/counters/) - [Mordekaiser counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/mordekaiser/counters/) ## Machine-Readable References - [LLM index](https://baronbuff.com/llms.txt) - [Full LLM reference](https://baronbuff.com/llms-full.txt) - [Sitemap](https://baronbuff.com/sitemap.xml)