Riven vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Riven
based on 2,647 Riven vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Tahm Kench
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some vital Riven against Tahm Kench matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Riven typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Riven or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes an ok counter for Tahm Kench.
While Riven does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter to Tahm Kench. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Riven versus Tahm Kench build include Black Cleaver, Maw of Malmortius, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Tahm Kench than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.3% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Riven vs Tahm Kench battles, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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