Kennen : Endless Stuns

Space Bum··1 votes·961 views

item 3153 item 3071 item 3091 item 3006 item 3035 item 3157

I've been in love with Top lane on-hit kennen for a few months now. It's just too fun getting multiple Stuns off without having to ult. You lose team fight pressure for sure but his laning phase is so oppressing for the enemy laner you can make them almost worthless in some cases. You still get the aoe CC from ulting so you do still have team fight impact. You just become an unduelable monster from all of the passive procs once you have Bork and WE.

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King of Demons1 votes

This build seems insanely inefficient. Except for the Zhonyas.

Space Bum1 votes

Tell me why you think?

King of Demons1 votes

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Tell me why you think?

Yeah, sorry for being lazy.

It's just that you get a lot of expensive items.

Going Hybrid with that Zhonyas also seems counter-intuitive, since you said you give up TF power for laning, but still get an item considered core on AP Kennen.

Black Cleaver is an item that reduces Armor, Wit's End reduces MR. I can see where you are coming from here, but all your damage is magical except for AA's (that won't hurt THAT much). If you only want CDR, you can get better items for that.

Space Bum1 votes

W scales with AD.

The Hourglass is situational to the build don't need it but really anyone can benefit from that item.

The whole point of the build is that you have very high attack speed that makes your passive proc more so people can't trade with you.

They try to engage, you stun them. They try to disengage, you stun them. They try to run for their lives, you ult and stun them. They still alive? Stun them again.

Kazaashi1 votes

I wouldn't get the Black Cleaver or the Last Whisper. His W scales off AD, but deals bonus magic dmg. Since all of his spells deal Magic dmg, armor pen isn't doing anything. Get a Rabadon's and Lich Bane there instead.

Space Bum1 votes

Armor pen works with AA's. The attack speed causes BC to stack fast. You have higher single target damage with this build because every time you stun them you are going to hit them 3-4 more times and they are going to be stunned again soon after. You can stun them just as much by building attack speed and AP but shifting the power to your AA's will inevitably do more damage because you are not having to wait for cooldowns.

Kazaashi1 votes

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Armor pen works with AA's. The attack speed causes BC to stack fast. You have higher single target damage with this build because every time you stun them you are going to hit them 3-4 more times and they are going to be stunned again soon after. You can stun them just as much by building attack speed and AP but shifting the power to your AA's will inevitably do more damage because you are not having to wait for cooldowns.

But since you don't have any bonus AD you are doing base 107 dmg at lvl 18 with your AA. His AA dmg is meaningless.

I LOVE your creativity, it could just be more effective.

The Paulrus1 votes

I think you might be better off trading in your item 3071 for item 3115

Why?

  • Gives him AP, which he needs.
  • It's got more on-hit magic damage, which with the MR reduction from Wits End gives you a pretty nice chunk of on-hit damage.
  • More attack speed (+115% without to +165% with). Not sure if that would push him over cap or not, haven't tried it. But that brings me to my next point.
  • Ability to swap out item 3006 for another boot choice. A lot of CC? Have a item 3111 . Need to chase? item 3009 or maybe you decide for a bit more MPEN with item 3020 .

Just my $0.02, take it for what it's worth since I don't play much Kennen, but I do tend to like On-hit builds (particularly, on-hit Teemo )

Ideally, I'd say his best on-hit would probably be something like:

item 3153 item 3091 item 3157 item 3135 item 3115 and Boots of your choosing.

Which gives you, on hit

5 MR reduction (up to 25) 8% of enemies current health in physical damage 57+15% of AP in magic damage (with my build, totals 94.5 bonus damage per AA) (a lot of which will likely get through due to Wits End + VS)

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