Can we talk Kennen

Darth Rodan·9/4/2018, 8:13:09 AM·4 votes·4,103 views

Kennen

  • Extremely low base damage with horrible ability power ratios. No free damage of any kind (like percent health etc).

  • Only a half duration stun (1 second), compared to other mages that usually can stun for 2 seconds.

  • Extremely energy dependent with very poor energy recover mechanics.

  • Extremely easy to counter his ult (example one Janna tornado is enough).

  • Relatively long cooldowns, especially on ultimate.

  • Almost no updates over the years other than unwarranted nerf to his range.

  • Most mage items have mana which he can't use, which severely limits what he can build or he has to waste gold on useless stats.

To be honest, this champion could use a total rework. He just can't offer much because so many other champions are just way better.

But if working with what he has now, he needs a little bit of everything. All his stats, range, damage, ratios, move speed, all could use a small increase.

Have you noticed that this champion is almost never played? That means that only people that know how to use him ever touch him. Which also means that his win rate will not be dragged down by the first-timers.

This champion needs some buffs all around to make him competitive. Right now he is just weak.

12 Comments

Madsin259/4/2018, 3:10:31 PM4 votes

Horrible Ap ratios?

Q - 75%

W - 80%

E - 80%

R - potential 150% AP

Kennen is a powerhouse. You are bad with the champ if you actually think he needs buffs.

I main kennen and I never have a problem with my builds.

item 3152 item 3020 item 3165 item 3135 item 3089 item 3116

Kennen is like vlad in the sense he needs to scale up in lane to 1v5 later. He is not the greatest of lane bullies if built AP.

HP Crookshanks9/4/2018, 10:59:59 AM2 votes

He also doesn't feel like a ninja unlike Akali and Zed .

Rouxful9/4/2018, 11:56:01 AM2 votes

Hes so much fun to play though. I will be sad if they change him too much and he loses his original identity but trust riot to make him cool and more viable

SSmotzer9/4/2018, 8:25:59 AM1 votes

He is on the list for a full relaunch, like to the point where his relaunch will come in the near future, probably next year.

The reason why his stun is so short is because it's tied to his auto attacks, and with the amount of items that can be used to make his stun happen more frequently is insane.

Like, building item 3124 item 3085 item 3508 plus all attack speed, he can stun lock any champion. It doesn't matter how little damage he does, he can win any fight, end game, with enough attack speed.

Plus with all of the ways to reduce ultimate cooldown, his ultimate cooldown isn't as big of an issue.

The problem with this build path is, he is extremely weak until he can chain stuns.

Infernape9/4/2018, 11:01:54 AM1 votes

I mean he does have an AoE stun for an ult that deals a ton of damage. It takes up a huge amount of his power budget.

Warlord Rhinark9/4/2018, 1:24:16 PM1 votes

Riot can't buff him because he's too strong in LCS and they value that over their core playerbase.