Nami vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Nami
based on 2,439 Nami vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Tahm Kench
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Advice to Win Against Tahm Kench
When you see Tahm Kench use the shield from Thick Skin, remember that he just opted out of a good deal of healing. He will also not accumulate new gray health until Thick Skin comes off cooldown. Use this to your advantage!
Watch out for Kench's Abyssal Dive - you can cancel it's channel with immobilizing crowd control effects.
Nami vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Nami in LoL
The stats shown here feature several vital Nami versus Tahm Kench counter stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Nami often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nami and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Nami or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nami usually loses when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Nami makes a poor counter to Tahm Kench.
While Nami does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Nami also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nami into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Nami also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nami vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nami is a trash counter to Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami to counter Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami usually accumulates a lot less CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nami versus Tahm Kench build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when playing against Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Nami, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nami vs Tahm Kench clashes, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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