vs Kennen
Your role · Engine disruptionStay on Fragmented.
27shuffled units after boarding✓ Stable
2026 floor30
27 shuffled units after boarding · at or above the 26-unit floor.
Bring in
2×Salvagespell / gear
1×Thousand-Tailed Watcherunit
Take out
2×Mirror Imagespell / gear
1×Rift Heraldunit
Disrupt the Equipment engine and prevent the opponent from converting many small outside-hand plays into an uncontested board.
Watcher is the efficient compression tool. Mirror Image is comparatively slow and setup-dependent.
Avoid · Temporal Breach, replaying Kennen, Keeper of Balance units can retrigger valuable play effects and create additional outside-hand interactions.
Full matchup treatment, postures and rules context in the guide’s matchup viewer.
Memory aids
Structural problem → the card that answers it. Each sideboard slot exists for a specific structural reason, not a general one.
Equipment engineSalvage
One protected defenderAtakhan
Temporary buffs / modified tall unitTemporal Breach
Wide boardWatcher · The Ruination
Slow hand-dependent strategyAshe, Focused
Need more early bodiesBlack Rose Dignitary
Need more grind & unit densityRift Herald
Low-removal fortress matchupEverywhere At Once