Stop the AD Kennen Top.

AngelicGoodra·Jun 26, 2017·15 votes·1,138 views

It doesn't work. Stop using it. You're making every Kennen main look bad while doing it because you have no dmg late game. It scales horribly, it doesn't work and it gives Kennen players a bad rep please.

18 Comments

e46 FanaticJun 26, 20176 votes

One reason why you don't go AD Kennen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4RcpXfBOfU

SasogwaJun 26, 20176 votes

?? It's broken and cancerous as shit. Just because all the players that you saw were absolute garbage doesn't mean he's weak. Also it doesn't scale badly. He's a pretty strong scaling splitpusher and runaans gives him easily AOE stuns, so good teamfighting.

AngelicGoodraJun 27, 20171 votes

Its only broken if you don't know how to properly trade.

SasogwaJun 28, 20171 votes

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Its only broken if you don't know how to properly trade.

If you're playing a melee toplaner against a good kennen top, you CANNOT properly trade. He automatically wins lane, unless you get help. He simply autoattacks and wears you down if you go for CS, so you're left with the only options being :

down on CS by a fair margin
down on HP and he has kill potential on you and can potentially dive or make you lose out on a big wave because you have to back or die.

That is of course unless you play a ranged toplaner yourself, but maybe the godlike tier toplaners such as Galio Fiora Gragas stand a chance. I wouldn't be so sure.

YOUGOTKILLEDBROJun 26, 20173 votes

They are nerfing it next patch and buffing ap kennen, stop whining.

Ben SharpioJun 26, 20172 votes

kennen players already have a bad rep from playing a stupidly broken ranged top laner.

ProtestantCaesarJun 26, 20171 votes

Sadly, he's only played as a stupidly broken ranged top laner because his range and waveclear are too bad for him to be good in mid. I still like to play him mid, though.

AcidTheWarlockJun 26, 20172 votes

I've played a game of it and I'm gonna do it again soon, I think it's a great pick for players who can kite and leverage the lane presence.

Sun Wu RyuumokuJun 27, 20171 votes

Bro the pick is strong, go abuse it till the nerf (i hate kennen).

Pippen The ShortJun 26, 20172 votes

Your poll is biased to favor yourself.

AD Kennen top has its merits. You can poke people out of lane with abilities and trade effectively with AA. No, it's not great late game, but that's not the point of picking AD Kennen. The goal is to push hard early game.

Sun Wu RyuumokuJun 27, 20171 votes

His late isn't garbage as he seems to say. Nobody look LCK or lcs (rekkles) ?

ProtestantCaesarJun 26, 20171 votes

It is kind of funny. AP Kennen's biggest weakness is his lack of waveclear. AD Kennen's waveclear is even worse. He therefore loses lane to people like Galio who can clear waves quickly.

TakazakiJun 27, 20171 votes

but then win because top lane galio gets ganked like no other if he mindlessly pushes in and AD kennen has the AD to reliably last hit under tower and freeze the wave in his favor.

6SfoolJun 26, 20171 votes

Honestly, AD kennen is less cancerous than AP. It's like an ADC with a stun and some survivability, whereas AP just ults and wins the teamfight all on his own.

Sun Wu RyuumokuJun 27, 20171 votes

Go lane against a decent kennen toplane.

Ralanced BemakeJun 27, 20171 votes

Silver 4 speaking here so please don't flame me.

I personally believe AP Kennen is FAR MORE viable than AD version, because I think split push begins to matter after the time period when the teamfight surrounding the first dragon matters more. Meaning, if Kennen runs AP, the whole team benefits a lot from teamfight due to the trait of AP Kennen allowing it to do burst damage in an area as well as stun. AD Kennen? Until it gets many stuff like BRK, Lunaan's, and others, it doesn't do much IMO other than being a little better 1v1ing someone and taking down turrets.

Depends on team comp on both sides, either AD or AP may be more viable than the either one of them. But I say AP Kennen is more viable because I believe it has much more influence to the team early game with a single core item namely Zhonya's, and having early influence is what top lanes are mostly supposed to do.

Sun Wu RyuumokuJun 27, 20171 votes

Depends on team comp on both sides

hum... yeah u won't go Ap kennen top, if ur mid is an ap too. But i think understimate the splittpushing power of this yordle, and his snowball. When kennen get his items u can't 1v1 him, 2 people against him is barely enough tbh.

He's a safe pick. At low elo nobody know how to handle splittpush... so basicaly :

ur team don't know either... so its a huge risk to not group and to play on splitt... but most of time game snowball so hard
other team... have 2 choice either they let u take tower & ini either they sent 3 people against you (ur team is free).

But I say AP Kennen is more viable because I believe it has much more influence to the team early game with a single core item namely Zhonya's, and having early influence is what top lanes are mostly supposed to do.

An toplaner don't need to provide this influence type. Ur job is to pressure the top, and forced jungler to come top (ur job is to survive to his gank too).

Sun Wu RyuumokuJun 27, 20171 votes