Tahm Kench vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Tahm Kench
based on 6,147 Tahm Kench vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Jax
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
Advice to Win Against Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Tahm Kench vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several influential Tahm Kench versus Jax counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jax’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Jax..
Tahm Kench typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Jax. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Jax
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Jax?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when playing against Jax, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes a good counter to Jax.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher win rate compared to Jax, when they face off with one another, Tahm Kench also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Tahm Kench into Jax.
Additionally, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jax. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Jax matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Tahm Kench is a decent counter to Jax. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Tahm Kench against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to counter Jax during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Jax. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench versus Jax build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Solstice Sleigh. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Jax than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 51.4% battling Jax with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Jax as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Tahm Kench vs Jax fights, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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