Kennen still suffers from gold starvation when his team is ahead

Yenn··1 votes·362 views

This is basically the one thing preventing him from being a competitive solo queue pick.

Basically, he becomes gold starved once his team groups with him. His wave clear is unusable while siegeing, he can't auto CS over his ADC or top (and the top can sometimes also clear the wave), so he's basically left with one CS per wave via Shuriken.

Even if he wants to be very risky and use Lightning Rush + Surge on the minion wave, it doesn't do enough damage to kill the caster minions; they're left with a small amount of health, allowing whoever is grouped with him to finish them off as he tries to return to a safe range.

Kennen's team fight is heavily reliant on having completed his Hourglass, which can't be viably built until his second or third item, depending on match up. If he starts being denied CS before he completes it, he can end up in a bad place where he falls off with no chance of catching back up.

Can we please fix this problem? It's silly and makes playing Kennen even more frustrating, as you can be ahead and then fall off into irrelevance because your team mates aren't letting you have any gold, leaving you to hope they stay ahead and don't make any major mistakes.

6 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer2 votes

Must be why he gets played in LCS

Yenn2 votes

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Must be why he gets played in LCS

LCS is solo queue, right? Arranged teams are aware of the problems Kennen has with CSing while grouped and let him have half of the wave.

This is basically the one thing preventing him from being a competitive solo queue pick.

Good reading comprehension.

ModWulf Helhammer2 votes

If he is able to be picked in LCS as a solo laner that isn't the carry, he can do just fine for everyone else.

And lots of champions are dependent on finishing certain items before being very useful in teamfights. Why should Kennen be special?

Yenn2 votes

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If he is able to be picked in LCS as a solo laner that isn't the carry, he can do just fine for everyone else.

And lots of champions are dependent on finishing certain items before being very useful in teamfights. Why should Kennen be special?

Because most other champions have tools that allow them to continue CSing even while another champion is in their lane. Kennen has no such tools and can be completely denied CS by a single champion staying in lane with him.

ADCs can snipe CS with autos. AD assassins have tools to clear the wave. Other casters have wave clear that at least kills the caster minions. Kennen has to essentially run into the enemy team in order to use his wave clear, which coincidentally does not kill the caster minions unless he has an absurd score like 6-0.

I'm not sure why you're even posting, because you clearly don't have any comprehension of the actual problem.

Eedat1 votes

Srs? There are a metric shit ton of champions that can't CS while sieging a tower lol

DarkRitual1 votes

What is split pushing followed by teleport plays?

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