Orianna vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Orianna
based on 1,265 Orianna vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Tahm Kench
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Orianna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several influential Orianna against Tahm Kench counter stats that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Orianna often has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Orianna and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Orianna or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 44.3% win rate. Therefore, Orianna makes a poor counter to Tahm Kench.
While Orianna does have a much lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Orianna also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Orianna into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Orianna has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Orianna is a bad counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Orianna against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Orianna to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna often racks up a similar amount of CS as Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Orianna versus Tahm Kench build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Tahm Kench than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 44.3% when countering Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Tahm Kench as Orianna, Orianna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Orianna vs Tahm Kench counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Tahm Kench as Orianna are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.