Tahm Kench vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Tahm Kench
based on 829 Tahm Kench vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Olaf
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 Olaf
Olaf has reduced defenses from damage during Ragnarok, despite being immune to disables. If you can't escape from Olaf during Ragnarok, try focusing your damage on him with your teammates.
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
Tahm Kench vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown here show several influential Tahm Kench against Olaf matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Tahm Kench typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Olaf. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Olaf
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Olaf?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when facing off against Olaf, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher winrate compared to Olaf, when facing one another, Tahm Kench also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Tahm Kench into Olaf.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Olaf matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Tahm Kench is an above average counter for Olaf. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tahm Kench against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to counter Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench versus Olaf build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Solstice Sleigh. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Olaf than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 52.1% when countering Olaf with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Olaf as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Tahm Kench vs Olaf clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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