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Kennen: Thundering Shuriken vs. Electrical Surge?

Creator: The_Nameless_Bard June 3, 2011 10:16am
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I hadn't played Kennen in a while and I experimented with a different way to focus skills. I see most people focusing Thundering Shuriken...but it occured to me that focusing Electrical Surge makes more sense since no matter what order of skills you use to get a stun it's always one of the three...thoughts?
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Shuriken is the only thing to let you assuredly land a Mark of the Storm without needing to go into melee range.

Electrical Surge is dependent on Thundering Shuriken and Lightning Rush, and Rush costs a lot while putting you in melee range.
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Maybe Lightning Rush then...either way while Thundering Shuriken is awesome you only need one point in it to apply a mark with it.
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I always get electrical surge first. It sets you up for stuff earlier later game and helps get damage off a bit better. Of course, I don't play Kennen except when he's free so... yea.
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If i go AP i build

1. Surge

2. Charge

3. surge

45 Shuriken

Then i max shuriken...

And when i go AS i just max surge.

2 Points in surge early just gives you that mutch more lane dominance to pass out on.
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I max surge first. It becomes really easy to reset the cooldown on marks of the storm with surge than with shuriken, especially if you're laning against someone who stays right behind his creeps.

I take one point in shuriken first, for the bush check, and occasional level 1 fight, then I max surge, with a point in charge at level 3 or 4 depending on if I'm being harassed or if there's a fast jungler.
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I always max shuriken.
Better AP scaling
Better CD
Doesnt put you on risk since the range is better.

All you need is skill to hit ppl with it.

(i play on AP/lvl and flat AP runes on him and usualy start with tome+red pot)
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