Idea: Increase Kennen's W damage.

Plasmi·3/28/2016, 8:33:28 PM·1 votes·652 views

Seeing as Kennen's W is absolutely essential for both his zoning playstyle and his waveclear, it seems to me that it should be doing a lot more damage. Two items in (if you're building the standard Zhonya's Rylais), an E W combo doesn't even clear the casters. Additionally, in lane, Kennen's presence with W is very small. The goal, I think, would be to Q and then make the enemy fear the W. This would zone them out, rewarding you for landing a Q and punishing them for getting hit by it. But the way it is now, W doesn't even leave a scratch. I feel increasing the base damage or the scaling would fix this. Let me know what you think.

5 Comments

Xrusa3/28/2016, 9:01:06 PM3 votes

OR they could increase his E damage and make him choose whether to use it as engage or DPS.

Chaos Milk Tea3/28/2016, 10:21:15 PM2 votes

If anything, they should buff his E. The W is almost free harass once you land a single mark on them, and making it stronger would make him very oppressive. His E puts him in danger though, and he can easily run through a whole wave with it. Buffing its damage would help him clear waves better without making him TOO much stronger.

shyie3/28/2016, 8:35:11 PM1 votes

Kennen is most likely among the most balanced champs in the game. The W isn't supposed to damage but poke. Not until max rank (which btw should be maxed first) does it do kill damage. I think he's fine but it would be interesting to see a meta shift if AP casters got back in top.

1374343/28/2016, 8:39:39 PM1 votes

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Seeing as Kennen's W is absolutely essential for both his zoning playstyle and his waveclear, it seems to me that it should be doing a lot more damage. Two items in (if you're building the standard Zhonya's Rylais), an E W combo doesn't even clear the casters.

Kennen is also manaless though. You have to be careful giving a manaless champion too much quick AoE wave clear.

Plasmi3/28/2016, 11:00:40 PM1 votes

Buffing his E sounds good to me.