Kennen vs Gangplank Counter Pick

Gangplank turns this into a zone-control problem rather than a range problem. Kennen throws from 550 units and Gangplank swings from 125, yet Powder Keg makes that distance negotiable: a detonated barrel spreads attack damage across an area and slows everything caught in it, and barrels get placed exactly where Kennen wants to stand. The recorded result is 43.7% for Kennen across 469 games on patch 16.13.1, and it worsens against a competent pilot, since Gangplank carries a difficulty rating of 9 against Kennen’s 4.

• Remove Scurvy cures crowd control outright, deleting the stun Kennen assembles from repeated Mark of the Storm applications and undoing the setup for Slicing Maelstrom.
• Gangplank scales harder in health: 630 base rising to 2,568 at level 18, against Kennen’s 580 and 2,246. Armor finishes close, 110.9 to 113.2.
• Movement favours Gangplank at 345 versus 335, so he picks when trades happen even before Trial by Fire ignites a target.
• Gangplank deals physical damage and Kennen deals mixed, so an early armor component buys Kennen more than a magic resist purchase would.

The one consistent opening is economic. Parrrley plunders gold on every kill it lands, so denying barrel setups and forcing mana to be spent on farm rather than harass is the closest thing to an equaliser.