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Kennen and Rakan unplayable now, time to pay our respects now

IArs3lynI·4/17/2019, 4:19:45 PM·1 votes·1,825 views

Kennen Armor and magic resist to his E is being move over to his ultimate, which is useless because it brings 0 value to him, thanks to the consistancy of his passive and zhonyas, he pretty much doesn't take damage anyways, they are pretty much nerfing his engage making it hard for kennen to go in without getting blown up. "what about his flash ulti combo" yeah can happen every 5 mins, so good luck with that when they use their abilities to force a flash out from you, you become useless from there

Rakan will be getting a buff to his ultimate, allowing it to increase his charm and movement speed power from it, they are also gonna allow your ultimate bonus to refresh upon each new hit. but the thing they are nerfing is you allowing to use his W and E during this time, i get it that his ultimate is strong when combine with his W, but his E was well needed to keep his team alive while keeping the core of what this champion does. "A champion who can dash in and out of danger while supporting his team" they just pretty much gutted half of his abilities. I would understand if his ultimate can be turn off on command, but now, it forces him to no longer be an Enchantress as he suppose to be, this is very conflicting as I use to main him (now im dropping him completely)

13 Comments

DODGEORLOSE4/17/2019, 4:37:40 PM1 votes

Yeah it's sad that Riot doesn't understand using his w and e are some of the ONLY THINGS THAT ARE FUN ABOUT THIS FUCKING CHARACTER

Literal IRL Tree4/17/2019, 5:50:02 PM1 votes

I mean i don't think it is the correct approach but as a decent level top laner (D3) Kennen auto wins or at least neutralizes almost every single lane matchup with Klepto+His E making him basically untouchable.

mack91124/17/2019, 7:42:00 PM1 votes

In his current form Kennen lacks interactivity in trading patterns due to the durability he receives and the play making potential of Rakan has seen major gutting of his kit , with this change more power can be brought back in through different ways.

Very interesting changes.

iiGazeii4/22/2019, 5:54:57 AM1 votes

They pulled back the buffs to Rakan's ult, and are instead buffing his base stats and W movement speed, and you're only prevented from using Flash/W during the first 0.5 seconds of the ult. Enemies get a half-second to react before being knocked up and charmed, and Rakan gets better health, armor, MR, MR growth, and W. Seems like a fair trade to me.

Kennen gets less of that armor and MR overall, but he gets more of it when he pops his ult. He'll tank less stuff in the laning phase, but in teamfights where you need to put yourself in the middle of the enemy team, you get better defenses.