Garen vs Kennen in Top lane is a lane that swings with levels on patch 26.14. The one thing to respect: his shuriken — Thundering Shuriken is the biggest damage in his kit; block it with W or he bullies you out of lane. Below is the exact page the OTP runs — runes, skill max order, summoner spells, item build and the four tips that decide the lane, plus a quick quiz before you lock in.

⇄ ChangeYOU · TOPGARENThe Might of Demacia

⇄ ChangeENEMY · TOPKENNENthe Heart of the Tempest

VS

Swings with levelsPre-6 HardPost-6 MediumTake Ignite

How to play it

✓ DO

W his shuriken

Use W on his Thundering Shuriken — it's the most damage in his kit, so block it whenever he throws.

Punish his mistakes

You can't kill him outright — only punish when he takes tower shots or heavy minion aggro, then scale to Stridebreaker and outscale him.

Farm under tower

It's a farm lane — focus on CSing under tower without getting dove by him or his jungler, since his R all-in is strong.

✕ DON'T

⛔

Never try to fight him straight up — there's no killing him unless he misplays into tower shots or minion aggro.

Runes

PRECISIONmatchup page

RESOLVEoverride for this matchup

SHARDS

Matchup-specific rune page — override from the OTP sheet for this lane.

Spells

FLASH

IGNITE

Items

Start

Core

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Skill order

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
		Q							Q	Q		Q	Q
			W											W	W		W	W
	E			E	E		E	E
						R					R					R

MAXE→Q→W

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