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Kennen Build

Mid Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 4,491 gamesUpdated

52.2%win rate0.2%pick1.0%ban

Who counters Kennen

How to build Kennen

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

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

55.7% win rate 23% of games 623 games
RunesDominationElectrocuteTaste of BloodGrisly MementosUltimate HunterSorceryAbsolute FocusScorch42% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite84%
Skills
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Thundering Shuriken
34578
Electrical Surge
29101213
Lightning Rush
114151718
Slicing Maelstrom
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Kennen build →
52.2%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.1% over 10,443 gamesPatch 26.21: 52.2% over 4,491 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
52.1%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
1.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
52.1%under 22 min
54.2%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.

Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Kennen champion portraitM KennenvsYone champion portraitM Yone
10 / 6 / 5

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Hextech Rocketbelt→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Kennen champion portraitM KennenvsNasus champion portraitM Nasus
4 / 4 / 7

Build

Swiftmarch|Hextech Rocketbelt→Stormsurge→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

EWQQQRQWQWRWWEER
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Kennen champion portraitM KennenvsVladimir champion portraitM Vladimir
5 / 8 / 14

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Hextech Rocketbelt→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Runes

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

Most popular 53.1% win rate · 42% of games · 1,660 games
DominationElectrocuteTaste of BloodGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
SorceryAbsolute FocusScorch
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.2% win rate · 13% of games · 504 games
DominationElectrocuteTaste of BloodGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
ResolveBone PlatingOvergrowth
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 + Ignite84%52.5%3,890 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport13%52.4%597 games

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

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes89%Chainlaced Crushers5%Crimson Lucidity3%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 53.3% 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
12% of games that reach a third item take this path53.9% win rate323 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Kennen →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 4,583 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
87% · 53.4% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
5% · 53.8% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
3% · 46.4% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 32.6% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
1% · 47.6% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
1% · 51.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Hextech Rocketbelt›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes8% of games · 49.2% win rate · 358 games
  2. Hextech Rocketbelt›Zhonya's Hourglass›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes5% of games · 53.3% win rate · 225 games
  3. Hextech Rocketbelt+Spellslinger's Shoes5% of games · 44.7% win rate · 217 games
  4. Stormsurge›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes3% of games · 52.6% win rate · 135 games
  5. Hextech Rocketbelt›Stormsurge+Spellslinger's Shoes3% of games · 42.5% win rate · 120 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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