Talk:Kennen/@comment-25337957-20140915114507/@comment-5211662-20140918002805

Kennen has an extremely hard time farming early game unless you use his only escape mechanism, and it still isn't good at clearing waves early game, unlike /.

Comparing to other champions, is short-ranged, has a escape mechanism (though its a lot less reliable) and has good AoE damage. However, Vladimir at least has sustain and his clearing wave ability isn't his escape mechanism. Not only that but Vladimir is way tankier than Kennen.

There are only two things where Kennen has the edge over Vladimir. The first one is having hard CC, but this is very unreliable, as Kennen needs to get 3 stacks on his enemy. The other is having a better escape/disengage mechanism. These two things means Kennen has the advantage when going against certain matchups such as or, but Kennen still has his early game problem.

Another problem is itemization: I want to rush to do a lot of damage early game and gain a little of tankyness, but at same time, I need to rush  as fast as possible, but at same time, I really need to rush  against AP matchups.

It is good when you have a lot of pratice with Kennen, so that you can overcome these problems. But I am not someone like that.

Sometimes when I go top lane I build Kennen as a full tank so that I can become an Amumu-esque champion with AoE stun. I do that because sometimes I am behind or when I do full AP I have a hard time surviving.