Kennen is a really strong champion

Yenn·Feb 22, 2016·1 votes·606 views

Except for the part where he needs Flash up just to function, and a perfect ult cannot kill anything.

It's really cool to get a perfect ult off on Zed + Caitlyn + Graves, not do any damage because they all have Maw or Steraks, and promptly die out of Zhonya as their bruisers disengage and collapse on you.

Almost as cool as getting 1 CS per wave once you start grouping because your wave clear is unusable.

When is this going to be looked at? His damage is atrocious, especially considering that he has very poor wave clear and the stars need to align for him to get a decent ult off.

7 Comments

ChijokuFeb 22, 20161 votes

I am sure Riot will give Kennen a good look sooner or later. I don't think he is as weak as you claim, but he certainly doesn't fall into the meta well beyond supp.

YennFeb 22, 20161 votes

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I am sure Riot will give Kennen a good look sooner or later. I don't think he is as weak as you claim, but he certainly doesn't fall into the meta well beyond supp.

Kennen is trash tier, but he's an early game bully and bad players panic and have no idea how to deal with his harass. He's pretty much unusable above Diamond due to players not being shit and knowing how to counter him, and early grouping shutting down his CS.

ChijokuFeb 22, 20161 votes

I pretty much 95% agree with you. Do I think they'll get around to him any time soon? Lol nope. They are trying hard enough as it is to balance out a lot of the issues they created x_x

Dominick DestineFeb 22, 20161 votes

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not do any damage because they all have Maw or Steraks

According to your scenario, you expected to win 1v3...? what kind of logic is that?

If you had gone in with your team , 3v3 and landed a perfect ult, they'd have gotten graped. Yes. You heard me, graped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh1RkRxnAOs

YennFeb 22, 20161 votes

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According to your scenario, you expected to win 1v3...? what kind of logic is that?

If you had gone in with your team , 3v3 and landed a perfect ult, they'd have gotten graped. Yes. You heard me, graped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh1RkRxnAOs

My team did go in, and they were stopped by the enemy team's bruisers. I expect to do more than be a mild inconvenience. If I were playing Ahri, instead, either Zed or Caitlyn would have been dead in a charm, and I would have gotten out alive afterwards.

Kennen's ult is so little a threat that they can just stand in it and wait for me to come out of Zhonya.

Virtually any AP caster in a situation where they can successfully walk up to an enemy carry is guaranteed a kill, and not just dealing 40% of their health and dying.

Dominick DestineFeb 22, 20161 votes

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My team did go in, and they were stopped by the enemy team's bruisers.

Then your team sucked.

Kennen's ult is so little a threat that they can just stand in it and wait for me to come out of Zhonya.

Alright I'm going to check your stats, at the point where you're strongly implying that Kennen's ult sucks, I have no choice but to look up your stats; You were Diamond last season? WTF?

It is always very disappointing to me when the rare Diamond is here on the forums but spouts such nonsense. Yes, Kennen's ult has lower scaling than other AoE ults , this is because Kennen's ult has massive utility attached to it, it cannot outscale, say, Crowstorm.

Kennen might need some slight buffs but Slicing Maelstrom is not the problem.