Sylas vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Sylas
based on 2,853 Sylas vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Tahm Kench
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several important Sylas versus Tahm Kench counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Sylas usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Sylas or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually fairs equally well when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes an ok counter for Tahm Kench.
While Sylas does have a lower winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Sylas also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Sylas into Tahm Kench.
Additionally, Sylas has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Sylas is a somewhat poor counter to Tahm Kench. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Sylas against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sylas to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Sylas versus Tahm Kench build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Tahm Kench than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 49.0% when playing against Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Tahm Kench as Sylas, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Sylas vs Tahm Kench matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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