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Kennen is obviously doing some super secret missions that nobody know to ensure the balance in Ionia. He is an incredibly important character, who is absolutely crucial to the Ionia's plotline.
shen: i like hanging out with my only pal kennen shen: would you look at the time! i have to take my pills **shen gulps some pills** shen: wait where did kennen go?
How about we Visually update him so he looks like the direction that most yordle looks like now and maybe give him something extra? he really doesn't need a Full rework and also make all his other skins baring his recent DWG one (he looks pretty awersome) a visual pass too.
That ninja emoji was sent by his clan to kill the shrugging guy emoji because he accidentally brought shame and loss of dignity to the clan by accidentally ripping one of their banners.
Does it say more about me or Riot that I am only just NOW hearing that Kennen is a founder of the Kinkou Order and is a significant player in Ionian affairs?
@@faceless8424 current akali was a leader in the kinkou order? I thought she just bailed before inheriting the fist of shadow title from her mom. But yeah i havent been as invested in lore since riot began retconning everything anyways
Never appeared in an animated short you say, eh.... have you forgotten his epic entrance in the awaken cinematic/music video.. that scene gave me chills.
@@nicolasdinant9616 again i am still not a 100 Percent sure about it, however according to the league of legends fandom wiki, and i quote, “The Awaken cinematic has been confirmed by Riot to be in-lore canon events. All the events of the cinematic do not happen at the same time but timeline wise still take place around the present or in the future. This ultimately confirms several events to have happened prior to this cinematic”
Finally Kennen got a spot. I would love to see Kennen in a cinematic that showcases his abilities.. Kennen is the reason why I played league. At the first year's of league, I asked my friend if there were any ninjas in the game and showed me Kennen and shen. When I read their skills, Kennen got me hooked with his lightning abilities. I love it. Lightning and ninja in one character.. So ecstatic! Cut to today. I main all 4 ninjas. Plus the samurai brothers. And the 2 lightning gods.
what is it with yordles being incredibly important and world defining but also extremely underutilized? like of the important region patron yordles poppy is the one that gets the most content and its still not enough, for me anyways
@gorilla sauce The ones in Bandle City know each other. Poppy, Kennen and Fizz are too busy minding their own business at their own regions and leaved Bandle a long time ago so they probably don't know/remember the yordles in the city and Kled, Veigar and Ziggs are completely crazy so...
The issue with Kennen and the Kinkou lore is that Shen, Zed, Akali, Jhin, and Kayn are some of the most popular in their role while Kennen is a top lane cheese pick who is despised.
@@faceless8424 which is stupid. Just let them be a normal race like everyone else. Why do they have to be the odd man out? Because they have a small and cute design?
I don't know why Riot don't involve Kennen is the stories of Shen, Akali & Zed. I have an idea though. The writers want to keep the Kinkou storyline all dark & serious with most the major players mature &/or cool. But Kennen (the goofy & energetic lightning Yordle) would come in & ruined their desired tone, for them I mean. It's why Riot add this glamour BS & keep Yordles out of the major storylines begin. Kennen is one of the few Yordles who had direct connections to human characters. But instead of making use of those connections, Riot toss him aside for their "super serious & dark ninja that no room for fun" story 🙄 Kennen could've still work though, just make him a bit more serious & tone down the energetic nature.
I know that some people annoyed you about the grades, but Id love to see them all, just for a better understanding of what you think of each champion. Maybe in a video with all of them or something, please it would be great
Kennen does at least have some presence in Akali's rework lore, as it's said that he taught her all she knows about the shuriken and is how she knows how to do her E.
I think Kennen visuals are of the most boring and basic in the game, and there is a huge clash of identities between his voicelines (edgy squirrel) and his supposed serious role in lore.
I think he's supposed to be mysterious. We know little about Kennen and see him rarely. Kinda works with the ninja aspect and fact that he's a yordle just makes me think he's supposed to be a mystery.
I do wonder if/when he gets a new model how close he'll stay to this design because I think there's something really appealing to basic Ninja outfit. Anyways yeah give Kennan more importance because I was mind blown reading the Yordle wiki page reading how Kennan is older then Runeterra.
When I first saw Kennen, I thought he was a fairly new character because his splash art and mode seemed to fit the rest of modern Ionia rather well. Also, he’s literally just pikachu
His specified role was to train Shen to be a leader and guide him other than that we don't have much explored about him apart from being a yordle. He still freaking ridiculous and key point in the game esp in Worlds and also Wildrift now. I was there at the time in Wildrift where he just presses ult and goodluck
I really enjoy his character design, I find him mostly cute, but i think it’s what really makes him stand out lol. I suck playing as Kennen, but I really like him as a character.
Sadly.. he was ignored because theres a chinese made champion who sing because she just want to... and trying to be relevant in the world when her purpose was just to sell skin.. so riot would eather ise resource on her than put efforts to important characters
At first I thought Kennen was just a ridiculous little boy dressed as a ninja who could use electric powers and I still struggle to see a yordle when I see Kennen. He's just too ugly. I hope Riot makes some justice for him someday.
I get the impression that Kennen is perceived as too goofy for the Ionian plotline. He's functionally 'what if Pikachu was a ninja', which is the most stereotypically 90s I-know-what-Japan-is-like-I-promise thing imaginable.
He can be updated to look more like gnar/kled/heimerdinger, He doesn't need a full rework, just modernization and visual update. however this also applies to Veigar/rumble/lulu who also Don't meet the visual modern forms of their Archetype aka Yordles and we susposed to get another yordle in the near future that may have connections to being yuumi/book's missing owner?
Isn’t his whole thing that he preserves balance in the spiritual world? We’ve never had a story specifically about how the whole spirits thing works with Ionia, so if it’s his job to preserve that than obviously we’d never see him. The stuff happening between Ionia and Noxus isn’t really his problem yet.
Kennen is supposedly responsible for maintaining the balance between members of the order. Yet whenever there is an argument between the actually important people of the order (Shen vs Zed or Shen vs Akali) he never shows up. Such a waste of an interesting character honestly, they could have explored his character as him failing at his job, taking the side of Shen too much or not being respected enough by them for him to be able to do his job properly.
It's sad, but the emoji ratings actually ruin a part of the joy i had watching these shorts. It's not that important, but it just rounds up the videos and gives a better comparison to other champs
there seems to be yordles in every area, and, they just sort of blend in to their environment in a magical and cartoonish way Kennen is the archetype of lil fluffy ninja, he is one of if not the only ninjay characters who is a marksman, throwing ranged shuriken as his auto attack, and not a melee character kennen also needs to go melee to use his ultimate, but you can't really give marksman ten dashes so instead he just relys on boosts to movement speed in theory this is really cool, and in practice, it's going to be a big threat if everyone is grouped up over something like Baron and your midlaner hard ccs everyone for just a second or two but that kind of combo, while it exists, is incredibly hard to pull off... and you pretty much have to sacrifice the standard melee top laner, so it works better when your team has an engage support or diver jungler I mean I can imagine briar and kennen with tp, both being in base when baron starts, and both completely demolishing the entire enemy team with some insane timings, but I honestly doubt it would work in pro play where vision of wards to tp to is more abundant
kennen needs more attention in general. i’ve only seen two people mention him at ALL and both times have been something along the lines of “oh yeah fuck him i hate playing against him” which ???? also he DOES appear in awaken and... does a thing? that’s about it
The short story call "Between light and shadows" is amazing, not only show how important Kennen is in the Kinkou, it also the way Riot introduce the ancient demon Azakana when it corrupted Kinkou's warrior
He is pretty abandoned gameplay wise too. His voice lines leave much to be desired as well. He just sounds like a daring speedster chipmunk. You don't get so see any of the wisdom or philosophy of a thousand year old creature whose job is keeping the balance of an entire region based on spirituality n' shit
Honestly, to me, he's pretty forgettable, and I'm pretty sure riot thinks the same, and that's why he's not really involved in many stories, it's not that they choose to ignore him, it's that he's just... forgettable.
as much as your original grading was nice (and informative of your overall *subjective* opinion), I gotta say nothing is funnier than seeing a "shrug emoji" grade and nodding sagely
I hope they eventuallynupdate his lore to take a more Raiden like part in the story, maybe offering some guidance to both kayn and akali who are both young and not following their respective orders
Riot just kinda hates Ionia tbh. I think they made a lot of the coolest parts of the lore before they had a clear idea of where they were gonna go and they just haven’t cleaned it up yet (if they ever will.)
