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It's very rare to hit two Qs in a row (people will play around the minion wave and won't give you the chance). When your W-empowered attack is up and you don't have to last-hit immediately, that's a good time to look for a trade.
Early game (esp against melees) you can just chip away at their health bars with Doran's Blade auto attacks. You don't necessarily have to hit abilities, but any Qs or Ws you can hit obviously helps.
Energy management shouldn't be much of an issue unless you use E and don't hit anything to get the energy refund. You can't really oom yourself with just Q and W. Try to tag something with E when you can. If you can't tag anyone with E (like you used it to escape a gank or something), you'll just have to wait a bit and play safely until you get the energy and cooldown back.
Lmk if you have any other questions.
I have completely missed that the empowered autoattack adds a mark of the storm. That ties everything together nicely.
Thank you very much!
Well, it was already expected, but you made a really great guide. You explain very well how to play as Kennen in ANY situation, a valuable guide to most players!
Do you have any tips for playing against Kennen? I struggle most of the time due to his stunlock whenever he starts to trade.
Anyway, great guide as always Psi!
See ya!
As a tank, you mostly just need to focus on getting some early magic resist and going even in farm. You aren't going to solo-kill a Kennen as Maokai unless he makes some huge mistakes, but you can probably kill him with the help of a jungle gank. Otherwise, just going even in lane should be fine.
As a ranged champion like Quinn or Teemo, you'll want to get a minion advantage and slow-push the wave. Trade with him when you have minions to block his Q and you should win if you have the minion advantage since Kennen's basic attack trades aren't as strong on their own. Kennen has kind of ****py waveclear early so you can often push him in if you're ranged.
As a fighter with mobility like Irelia, check out this video from SkillCapped. The whole video is worth watching, but the important part is at the 5:00 mark where they show a window where the melee champion can fight the ranged one when they're being pushed in. You want to fight when the wave is closer to your tower and there are only a few enemy minions.
Against ranged matchups, you can trade when your empowered W basic attack is up or when you can land a Q, otherwise you'll usually lose trades or go even at best. If you have more minions than the enemy, it becomes a lot safer to trade, so look for more aggressive trades when you're pushing. Just remember to ward and watch for the enemy jungler.
Against squishy enemies keep in mind you have a lot of kill threat with your ultimate, so if you're against a Quinn or something and have trouble harassing her, you can just farm and wait for your jungler to gank and/or wait for 6 and all-in her with your ultimate.
Much of the runes section has been overhauled and the items were tweaked a bit as well (took out Rylai's Crystal Scepter and added Liandry's Torment to situational items). Hope you guys find the guide useful.
Edit: I totally changed my mind on this later, haha.
Right now I'd recommend the following runes: Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Scorch, Taste of Blood, Ravenous Hunter.
I have one more question how the hell do you get all those mobafire points man You are definetly getting the giveaway man
Thanks for your comment, I'm glad you're having success with Kennen. I agree that he's a terrific team fighter! :)
And why are you not eligible to win the giveaway ?
I'm not eligible because I'm a staff member. :P
Do I have to be at the top 25 to get the giveaway
Thanks for helping me