Matchup & Sideboard Viewer
Matchup & Sideboard Viewer
Meta snapshot · August 2026. Dated starting configurations from the source guide — not live, not auto-updated, and not immutable plans.
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
1×Thousand-Tailed Watcherunit
− Take out
2×Mirror Imagespell / gear
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 units can retrigger valuable play effects and create additional outside-hand interactions.
Sideboard philosophy in §20 · role assignment in §5.
Memory aids
Structural problem → the card that answers it. Each sideboard slot exists for a specific structural reason, not a general one.
Equipment engine→Salvage
One protected defender→Atakhan
Temporary buffs / modified tall unit→Temporal Breach
Wide board→Watcher · The Ruination
Slow hand-dependent strategy→Ashe, Focused
Need more early bodies→Black Rose Dignitary
Need more grind & unit density→Rift Herald
Low-removal fortress matchup→Everywhere At Once