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Kennen Build

Top Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 17,781 gamesUpdated

49.1%win rate0.8%pick1.0%ban

Who counters Kennen

Every Top matchup for Kennen, ranked →

How to build Kennen

Sorcerer's Shoes→Hextech Rocketbelt→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Sorcerer's Shoes → Hextech Rocketbelt → Shadowflame → Zhonya's Hourglass

53.1% win rate 25% of games 2,474 games
RunesDominationElectrocuteTaste of BloodGrisly MementosUltimate HunterSorceryAbsolute FocusScorch57% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite71%
Skills
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Thundering Shuriken
34578
Electrical Surge
19101213
Lightning Rush
214151718
Slicing Maelstrom
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Kennen build →
49.1%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.8% over 42,136 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.1% over 17,781 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.1%at Emerald+
0.8%pick rate
1.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
49.0%under 22 min
50.0%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Kennen champion portraitT KennenvsK'Sante champion portraitT K'Sante
8 / 7 / 7

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Hextech Rocketbelt→Shadowflame→Void Staff→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Kennen champion portraitT KennenvsCamille champion portraitT Camille
3 / 5 / 3

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Hextech Gunblade→Void Staff

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Kennen champion portraitT KennenvsYone champion portraitT Yone
4 / 4 / 10

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Hextech Rocketbelt→Void Staff→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

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Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 48.5% win rate · 57% of games · 9,414 games
DominationElectrocuteTaste of BloodGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
SorceryAbsolute FocusScorch
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 49.3% win rate · 10% of games · 1,604 games
SorcerySummon AeryNimbus CloakTranscendenceScorch
DominationTaste of BloodUltimate Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite71%49.2%13,148 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport24%49.3%4,399 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes87%Ionian Boots of Lucidity4%Boots3%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 50.1% win rate

Kennen build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Hextech Rocketbelt1st
  2. Zhonya's Hourglass2nd
  3. Shadowflame3rd
14% of games that reach a third item take this path55.0% win rate1,407 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Kennen →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 18,144 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
84% · 50.2% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
4% · 50.2% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 34.3% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
2% · 49.6% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
2% · 47.7% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
2% · 51.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Hextech Rocketbelt›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes10% of games · 47.0% win rate · 1,816 games
  2. Hextech Rocketbelt+Sorcerer's Shoes6% of games · 39.8% win rate · 1,108 games
  3. Hextech Rocketbelt›Zhonya's Hourglass›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes6% of games · 56.1% win rate · 1,020 games
  4. Zhonya's Hourglass›Hextech Rocketbelt›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes4% of games · 52.4% win rate · 653 games
  5. Hextech Rocketbelt›Stormsurge+Sorcerer's Shoes3% of games · 44.4% win rate · 462 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Kennen against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Kennen's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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