Tahm Kench vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Tahm Kench
based on 3,509 Tahm Kench vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Tahm Kench vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some significant Tahm Kench vs. Thresh matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Thresh..
Tahm Kench usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Thresh. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Thresh
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when trying to fight Thresh, with a 54.1% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes a great counter for Thresh.
While Tahm Kench does have a much higher winrate compared to Thresh, when on opposite teams, Tahm Kench also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Tahm Kench into Thresh.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Thresh matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Tahm Kench is a great counter for Thresh. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tahm Kench against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench in order to counter Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench typically gets much more CS relative to Thresh. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Tahm Kench versus Thresh build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Tahm Kench included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Thresh than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 54.1% when playing against Thresh with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Thresh as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Tahm Kench vs Thresh clashes, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.1% winrate overall.
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