Kennens W can we make him the pure ability power melting ninja we all know and love?

Frigid Frostwolf·7/14/2014, 8:25:03 PM·1 votes·943 views

Every 5 attacks, Kennen deals bonus magic damage equal to 40/50/60/70/80% of his attack damage and adds a Mark of the Storm to his target. (original text)

so basically in a champion whose Q,E,R are purely AP based and the second half of W (Active: Sends a surge of electricity through all nearby targets afflicted by Mark of the Storm, dealing 65/95/125/155/185 (+55% Ability Power) magic damage.) also Ap based has an ability that uses his atk dmg as a factor? why couldn't we just take the atk dmg away as bonus magic damage and instead give him a CDR with a 5th shuriken hit, or even possibly his 5th shuriken doing a minor slow or something more useful to his kit. or even give his 5th atk a DOT effect like teemo and every fifth shuriken applies a minor DOT on hit. just ideas .

6 Comments

12tales7/14/2014, 8:55:10 PM2 votes

I dunno, I kinda like Kennen having hybrid scaling. It gives him the option of going for really weird builds that most other champs can't run, which I think is kinda cool.

EatEnglishMuff7/14/2014, 11:16:15 PM1 votes

I like that it's there, but if anything I think they should keep what they have and just add this passive:

***Every 5th hit shreds magic resist equivalent to 25% of your total AD. ***

It would amount to roughly a fiddle passive on one person early game, and scale to about an abysscal late game, not much but would help his laning.

They also need to increase the W range again, that really killed his playstyle.

KairosCrow7/14/2014, 11:13:38 PM1 votes

Only if ADC Kennen remains unaffected or is buffed.

Simistab7/15/2014, 2:02:22 AM1 votes

Hey back in Season 3 the Koreans were running ADC Kennen to great effect, his base damages and stuns (which aren't affected by AP) make him a pretty strong ADC. Not to mention him doing hybrid damage means that if you build armor his abilities will damage you, and if you built mr his auto-attacks will melt you. If he was more popular you'd see him a lot more in random roles like adc and supp, he's pretty versatile.

HigeR7/15/2014, 5:10:51 PM1 votes

would you mind reading my QoL buffs for Kennen and giving some input over there? It'd be awesome if the community gathered all complains for Kennen in one place so riot can skim through and about! http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-skins/nkpWOJdc-qol-buffs-for-kennen

I like the Idea of his W scaling off AP instead, it'd make nashor's tooth a core item on him, but it'd be very weak in the early stages of the game where you use the passive mostly for last hitting a-la Ziggs. Kennen also has quite high base scaling AD for a mage so it's not like 80% of his AD is nothing, almost a crit, and even though the bonus dmg doesn't crit, if you had an Infinity Edge and your AA crits + mark, you'd be doing 330% AD ._. not like AP kennen builds an IE but ADC Kennen does, taking this away would simply push him out of this option, which in my opinion Kennen playing almost any role is pretty cool... after all... balance above all things!!!!