This new Adaptive Damage thing completely eliminates Kennen's early game...
TL;DR: if you don't want to read my biased opinion on the new runes, I cut straight to the point on the third bullet point.
I'm making this thread about Kennen because people have been making threads about Zyra and Aurelion Sol in the past, and you might not care about this, but us Kennen mains do.
When I saw the new runes I feared for the life of me that my main would become un-viable, well, here we are, and it looks like my predictions came true.
I swear the only good rune here is that one where you deal damage to people with impaired movement. This basically gave him his old ultimate back which I was very glad to be able to use effectively again. However when I started connecting everything else, almost none of the rest of the runes work on him, and if they do, it's not enough to be useful.
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The old Thunderlord's proc'd when you hit a target with your passive up and you hit W, because the auto attack counted as one attack and the passive counted as the second one, and finally the third one was counted when you pressed W. However, now, that no longer works, the new Electrocute only works if the player is stunned since his W passive now only counts as 1 attack. Well why does Bard's passive and Ivern's passive count as two attacks when really it's only one. I thought this was pretty stupid.
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Oh wait but there's more... When I noticed you couldn't get magic penetration any more except for one rune, I literally didn't know what other option to take. Sudden Impact's Description only gave Magic penetration or Lethality if the champion had a BLINK, LEAP, TELEPORT, DASH, OR STEALTH. Which none of these apply to Kennen's E, Kennen's E is a movement speed boost, not any of these. I swear, can't we switch this stealth thing to, coming out of bush/unseen?
*** And last but definitely the worst thing about this is the Adaptive Damage swap when you start Doran's Blade. This has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever expected of this new rune system. Why take one of the best early game harass champions and as soon as you buy Doran's blade you completely swap out the 27 AP with 16-ish AD. This is ridiculous, you can't harass people with AD because riot nerfed his W several patches ago. Doran's Ring isn't a better option because he lacks a mana bar and he needs the slight sustain he gets from his Doran's Blade. That's another issue, he has no sustain if he doesn't start Doran's Blade, Feast doesn't exist anymore, so he's forced to put Inspiration as his second just to get the Biscuit Delivery to recover his health since he has no mana. When I played Kennen in the top lane today, you have no room to harass people, absolutely no way to do this, I'm seeing tanks with over 800 health at level 1 that have the infinite stacking health mastery and bonus armor at level 10 tower diving me and me not having enough reaction time to flash away. This included with you having to start with 72 AD with Doran's Blade, you have no kill pressure at all, everyone's armor was buffed, the magic resist removal doesn't matter if you can't even have 27 AP at level 1, and by the time you can build AP it'll be too late because the enemy already has a 
or 
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First AD Kennen became non-viable when Xayah came out and this whole Duskblade issue became a mess, and now AP Kennen doesn't even work? 90% of my champion pool has these similar issues, too squishy, and a tank can just walk under turret and start slapping you until you die. Hey if tanks can survive this long under these weak turrets, why do most of them need an execute when they don't even need it right now?
I want to play my mains again, but the only thing I can play right now is 
, this is what my match history looks like:
http://oi64.tinypic.com/jb3cli.jpg
Not a single win where I don't play 
[zombie-brand-facepalm]