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GoliathGames' Master guide to Kennen

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I'm Kennen main, peak Plat 1 last season. The build is what i used to do almost every game last season, however once season 10 start i have struggle to fight vs tank.

I also feel like rushing Morrello 2nd item is not as effective as before, instead i try to go Proto belt > Void staff first, and notice that i can clear range minion much easier with void staff components (i'm max W > E) than typical morrello orb (around same price range).

Plus Void staff is a cheaper.

Cut back Morrello also free up slot for me to go both hourglass + Banshee late game. Banshee does help a lot when engaging a team with Azir/Janna/Ali star/Lee Sin.

This is such a good build, thank you!

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thanks for the comment :) glad it helped.

new to kennen so I know people are going klepto why is it you take phase and whats the diff between what your going for for both?

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Yeah both are viable, I still really like phase rush personally as it feels way better for teamfighting, klepomancy is also great on Kennen though (I sometimes take it against meele matchups or tanks so you can farm them) because it helps him reach his item spikes faster and each item is a decent powerspike on kennen.

So basically I take klepto vs meeles and phase rush vs ranged, but sometimes I'll also take phase rush if I want the mobility for teamfighting which I still feel is really strong. But like I said both are definitely viable.

Hello I’ve been playing kennen a lot recently and I really like his play style and I’ve been using the guides it’s helped me a lot. I noticed in your guide the top picture of the items shows MORELLONOMICON and not LIANDRY'S TORMENT as a core, So I’m wondering which one did you really mean for your 2nd core item pick?

Also I was wondering if you can give me advise on how to handle teams that constantly want to tf without the full team vs there’s , and should we wait for my ulti to be up if our team and the enemy team are on even ground. It’s hard to get people to relax when they get blood thirsty for kills lol

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Ah yeah I need to update that in the second part sorry, I build morello instead of liandrys now since it gives flat magic pen now.

Yeah you always want to wait for your ultimate if you're going to teamfight with Kennen or he is pretty useless, I would just ping my ult time left (by pinging the ability)or type to my team in chat if they're really bloodthirsty for some reason, unfortunately you can't control them so there might be some instances where they still go all in after you ping but that's about all you can do.

hey there, I really like this guide overall, thank you for making it!
however two things weren't clear to me: which runepages are better for each situation and more importantly what do you build on him if you wanna go ad? I mean I feel like most of the damage I do is with his auto attacks and summon aery and if I wanna go ad its a completely different play style because only his w scales with ad. also, will it hurt my laning phase early if I'd build shurelyas? I feel like his all in combined with its active has a true oneshot potential

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Thanks man.

Summon aery is good if you're trying to win lane hard since it offers a lot of extra poke damage in lane (make sure you're taking advantage of it if you're running it though)

Phase rush is better for teamfights since it allows you to speed around and get better ultimates off (I personally perfer phase rush overall since it also does help with lane and just feels super nice late game which is mostly what I play kennen for.)

As for AP vs AD, the only time you should ever really consider going AD is if you're against a hard tank since you just rush botrk and splitpush 24/7 but in my opinion AD kennen isn't very good in soloQ since you have to get a big lead and split 24/7 so I perfer to just go AP and carry with good ultimates.

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I love how the whole guide explained everything intuitively and clearly. Thank you very much for this!

However, I have a question regarding Runes and Items. Given the Reforged Runes you have used for Kennen and the inclusion of (plus ) as a tool to add movement speed, how viable would it be to swap for ?

As far as I understand, is used mainly as a tool to reposition yourself and land with more precision; however, isn't that role already covered by ? Given that is, as you mentioned, a hybrid champion that can benefit from both Attack Damage and Ability Points, I can definitely see the appeal of a instead.

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Thanks man :)

I haven't tried hextech gunblade out myself and it may make you more annoying in lane since your autos would do more. But I will say hextech protobelt is strong in many ways besides just repositioing, number one it helps a lot with waveclear even though he has decent waveclear sometimes clearing the meeles if there is a big stack is annoying without protobelt. Number two which is the big reason is the AOE damage is actually really strong on this item in a teamfight and it just gives you that extra AOE damage that you need to finish off targets + position better in a teamfight, also thirdly the HP from hextech protobelt is really good I think since you want to survive your entire ultimate in fights.

Basically I believe protobelt is better overall for teamfighting which is kennens main strength, but gunblade wouldn't be bad for a splitpush lane harass type build, just different playstyles at the end of the day.

Would be nice if you put what counters kennen and what kennen counters in the guide but very well put guide as a whole

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Thanks, I'm actually working on doing matchups for all my guides just takes some time but I will have them on this guide eventually.

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is viable on ?

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yeah it's definently viable especially for the laning phase it is pretty strong, but personally I really like phase rush because I play around his ultimate a lot in the mid and late game.

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I think kennen is a pretty good champ,(but im not pretty good using it) and he is so much powerful with his R (ultimate) in team fights He can stun the whole enemy team in no time,Thanks for your guide It is really good and It helped me to improve my skills by kennene and to master him more and do more tricks by him