Kennen Counters Classic 26.22

Mark of the Storm sits on you for six and a quarter seconds, and the third one stuns. Thundering Shuriken is the piece with the reach, and from its third point on it returns before the first mark expires, so two can sit on you at once. A third cannot, so Electrical Surge or Lightning Rush has to finish the count, and both of those want him closer. Howling Gale reaches past all four of his casts.

Slicing Maelstrom wants him standing near you, so Monsoon answers it by moving him rather than by outliving it. Knock him back and he has no dash and no speed rider to make the walk in again quickly, only Lightning Rush, which passes through units instead of covering ground. Watch which of you presses first. Monsoon does not match Slicing Maelstrom's cooldown until your third point, where the pair of them finally sit level.

Eye Of The Storm will shield a turret as happily as a person, and it hands over attack damage for as long as it holds. Tailwind gives three percent movement speed to every allied champion on the map, not only whoever stands beside you. Neither of those touches his Energy, and a completed stun hands him twenty five back. The shield also covers one body. Slicing Maelstrom strikes at random among nearby enemy champions, so the person you protect is not the person it picks.

Overload, Rune Prison and Spell Flux all run out at about the same distance. Thundering Shuriken keeps going past all three. That sets the lane: to do anything you stand where he is already working, and the opening mark costs him no ground, only Energy. Arcane Mastery pays for that. It counts the cast rather than the hit, so a spell spent on a minion still pulls the rest of the kit forward a second.

His stun is one second, and his own passive says a repeat inside seven seconds arrives diminished, so stuns close together are worth less than stuns spaced out. Rune Prison is your side of that trade, fourteen seconds on the shelf before Arcane Mastery and Overload's own cooldown reduction start pulling on it, while Thundering Shuriken is back every four seconds at rank five. Trading a hold for a hold is fine; trading cooldowns is not.

Desperate Power is the answer to Slicing Maelstrom, and the movement speed is the part that does the work here. Eighty at rank three, running seven seconds. The area damage and the vamp ride along, but neither moves you. His storm reaches shorter than all three of your targeted spells. Desperate Power returns sooner than the storm at every rank, seventy against a hundred and twenty. The vamp needs you casting, and a stun is time you spend not casting.