Talk:Kennen/@comment-71.68.6.31-20120220181113/@comment-71.142.66.150-20120226162356

Kennen is not that hard to counter; I completely agree with you. Playing Kennen in ranked, I see the fright people have and play extremely passively. To know how to counter someone is to first learn how to play them and learn their abilities. He's a strong mid/top lane choice, but so are a lot of other champions. You're saying lightning rush makes him ungankable? Look at Morgana's black shield, Cait's net, Veigar's stun. All of them can get away from ganks quite easily. Early game should not be too difficult. Look at what the opponent maxes first; if he maxes Q first, his W has an extremely high cooldown. His E is horrible for farming early game, and if he does use E-W, just harrass because he has no escape, and his only counter is Q. These are just a few ways to hinder his ability in the laning phase. He's not overpowered; as mentioned before, he was a rather underused champion before people started using him more. That means many people just haven't learned how to play against him. The ultimate? I'll have to admit the ultimate is quite strong, but likewise they're supposed to be. It's doesn't deal as much damage, and while it does stun the opponent team, the one second stun has to be capitalized on in an instant. If you flash in too early, you're stunning the team with little to no backup, which in turn leads to you being instakilled. Rushing WoTA and then into Zhonya's gives you minimal damage as well, so getting Zhonya's early means that while you survive longer, you do less damage.