Thoughts and feedback on Kennen changes from a high elo OTP

Hey guys I am a diamond 3 Kennen OTP from OCE. I am going to go over the changes from my perspective as a OTP ,hopefully I can give some insight into the kennen changes ,my feelings on them and give some feedback to riot. _ Passive - Mark of the Storm_

MARK DURATION 6.25 seconds ⇒ 6 seconds This isn't that big of a deal with the CDR on zhonyas and abyssal in most cases you can still double chain your "W". So in my eyes its not a terrible change.(Played around with it about and it feels alright)

REDUCED EFFECT WINDOW 7 seconds after last stun ⇒ 6 seconds after last stun No problem here, good stuff riot.

**ADDITIONAL STUNS 0.6 seconds ⇒ 0.5 seconds ** The .1 can defiantly add up in extended trades especially with you going all in. So I feel like in a high skill match up, the nerf here is between .4 and .5 seconds of your opponent unable to do anything gone, this isn't a huge deal, but 100% a nerf.

_ W - Electrical Surge_ **COST 45 energy ⇒ 40 energy ** The 5 energy reduction is cool but I don't see any really benefit to this honestly, I would have much rather seen reduced energy costs on his E

**RANGE 800 ⇒ 750 ** Ok this actually really annoyed me. Unjustified nerfs to his W is something no kennen main wants to see, its without a doubt his bread and butter, not only in lane but also during fights.

After playing with this nerf to his W I feel his old W was balanced quite nicely, this 100% needs reverted in my opinion, hell take the energy cost back and give us the range on his W instead because this is something I personally never want to see riot mess with ,I can understand his W is hard to balance between kennen having to commit too hard to use it or him abusing the range and never having to get close enough for counter play but this was never the case and was an unnecessary change. (His W was fine, no need to change it)

R - Slicing Maelstrom

DAMAGE 80/145/210 (+0.4 ability power) per bolt (unchanged) DAMAGE FALLOFF 25% per bolt (50% minimum damage) DURATION 3/4/5 seconds ⇒ 3 seconds at all ranks TICK RATE 0.25 seconds ⇒ 0.5 seconds MAX DAMAGE PER TARGET 240/435/630 (+1.2 ability power) ⇒ 300/544/788 (+1.5 ability power) EMP Each tick now strikes every target in the area, including minions and monsters **

Overall I think this was actually a decent change on riots part, the thing that I personally dislike about this change isn't the duration of the ult but the tick rate. My biggest issue with the tick rate is getting your stun off in fights and countering dives.

As kennen before you could flash ult W and have a stun in .5 seconds, now they have doubled that and made it so unless you have Eed your intended targets you have to wait 1 second before you get the stun, 1 second is a long time, this is a huge nerf to flash ult kennen flank engage and I wonder if its intended. In high elo its hard enough to get decent engages with kennen even with the 0.25 tick rate, high elo Janna and Alistair players can make kennen feel redundant.

TLDR: Revert the W range nerf, and maybe play around with the Tick rate for kennens ultimate and this change will actually have been petty good. I also like the item changes for kennen on that note GJ.

Thanks for reading.