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Community rank
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Where players rank Kennen on the community tier list. One vote per account.
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Classic loadouts
Builds for Kennen
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Abilities
P
Mark of the Storm
Kennen's abilities add Mark of the Storm to opponents for 6.25 seconds. Upon receiving 3 Mark of Storm, an opponent is Stunned for 1.25 seconds and Kennen receives 25 Energy. If the same target is Stunned again with Mark of the Storm within 6 seconds the target is Stunned for 0.5 seconds instead.
Q
Thundering Shuriken
Kennen throws a shuriken that damages the first enemy hit dealing 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 magic damage. (+75% AP)
75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235+75% AP
W
Electrical Surge
Description not yet transcribed - never back-filled from modern League.
E
Lightning Rush
Description not yet transcribed - never back-filled from modern League.
R
Slicing Maelstrom
Ultimate
Summons a magical storm for 3 seconds, dealing 80 / 145 / 210 magic damage to a random enemy champion near Kennen every 0.5 / 0.4 / 0.3 seconds. This storm cannot hit the same target more than 3 times. (+40% AP)
80 / 145 / 210+40% AP
How Kennen plays
Editorial Reading of the kit above, not a sourced claim - the numbers inside it were checked against the client before publishing.
Kennen wins fights by stacking a resource the enemy can't see building until it's too late. Every ability he lands tacks a Mark of the Storm onto its target, and landing three marks in the same short window stuns outright and hands him Energy back. Poking with Thundering Shuriken from range is really him loading that stun before he's ever at risk. Electrical Surge doubles as passive and active, a free proc every few basic attacks plus a burst of damage around him whenever he casts it. Lightning Rush turns him into a literal ball of lightning for a couple of seconds, picking up bonus resistances and zapping anything he passes through for reduced damage against minions, which makes it both his engage and his escape depending on which way he points it. Slicing Maelstrom is the payoff for landing marks all game, a storm that keeps striking a random nearby enemy champion for several seconds straight, usually enough on its own to lock someone down mid-cast. He runs on Energy, so the real ceiling on how aggressive he can be is how often he's actually landing hits, not how much he has banked.
Counters & matchups
Strong against
Weak against · in lane
Weak against · across the map
Plays well with
Slicing Maelstrom dominates teamfights and ranged stuns bully melee top laners; disengage (Janna Monsoon), CC-immune bruisers (Olaf), and silence (Kassadin) interrupt his engage.
"In lane" means both champions are played in the same role in Classic; "across the map" represents cross-lane dynamics (e.g. jungler ganks, roaming supports). All matchups evaluated strictly within the 63 Classic launch champions.
What Kennen's kit scales with
Read from Kennen's ability text.
Resource
EnergyMana runes and items do nothing for this champion
Range
Ranged550 units
Ability ratios
Q
Thundering Shuriken
R
Slicing Maelstrom
Skins · 11
Catalog and art read directly from the client files (build 362c0c748f7a) - exactly the skins the client lists for Kennen, including the Classic throwback skins with their era models. © Riot Games.
Modern vs Classic · 6 tracked changes
Kennen
Base Health
580
482
Health per level
98
79
Base Attack Damage
48
50.3
Base Armor
29
17.75
Armor per level
4.95
3.75
Base Attack Speed
0.625
0.69
Classic: the Classic client's files · Today: patch 16.14.1.