Talk:Kennen/@comment-212.117.1.33-20120127112708/@comment-68.100.132.110-20120127221314

I agree that his AD and AS are absurdly high for an AP carry.

However, Energy is NOT an infinite pool. You can't just use your abilities as soon as they come off cooldown like you can with every single other champion, there are frequent periods of time, especially early game, where you have to wait for your energy to replenish. You want a champion who can spam their abilities as much as they want, look at cooldown-based champs, and even mana-based champs who build mana and have large mana pools.

Kennen is very vulnerable to ganks early game, due to his long cooldowns and E's ridiculous energy costs. Like many other insane late-game champions(Sion, Tryn, Renek, Veigar, etc.), if you shut him down during his weak early game, he will not be a threat late game.

IMO, if they made his E cost 100 Energy at all levels(Like it did before his buff), cut down his base AD and AS, and played around with his ult's cooldown, damage, OR AP ratio(not all 3, that'd be too much), he should drop down to mid tier or so.