Kennen Outside-Hand Engine

Champion: Kennen, Storm of Shuriken · Engine-tempo · Trash as a second hand

Meta snapshot · August 2026. Dated starting configurations from the source guide, not live, not auto-updated, and not immutable plans.

vs Master Yi

Your role · Lane-breaking tempoKennen, Storm of Shuriken

14shuffled units after boarding✓ Stable

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14 shuffled units after boarding · at or above the 13-unit floor.

Bring in

1×Switcheroospell / gear

1×Salvagespell / gear

1×Star-Crossedspell / gear

Take out

1×Last Ritesspell / gear

1×Cull the Weakspell / gear

1×Up from the Deepspell / gear

They ask one defender to hold a battlefield behind protection. Your bodies are one and two Might, so out-sizing it is not on the table.

Forbidding Waste plus Switcheroo is the actual plan: shrink the lone defender, then swap whose Might is whose.

Salvage answers Zhonya’s Hourglass, which is what otherwise makes their defender uninteractive.

PreserveSwitcheroo · Rebuke · Forbidding Waste · Rebuke has no Might cap, which is the only clean answer to a defender that has grown past Gust.

Avoid · Gust into anything they have buffed. Three Might is a low ceiling in this matchup.

Avoid · Leaving your own unit defending alone at the Waste.

Full matchup treatment, postures and rules context in the guide’s matchup viewer.

Structural problem → the card that answers it. Each sideboard slot exists for a specific structural reason, not a general one.

71.12%At least one interaction spell in the opening four

66.68%At least one outside-hand enabler

50.25%At least one two-Energy body

50.25%At least one Lightning Rush or Stacked Deck

28.38%At least one Rhasa the Sunderer

28.38%At least one Seal of Discord

22.26%Two or more outside-hand enablers

10.45%Two or more two-Energy bodies

10.26%Baron Nashor, which is usually the wrong card to see early