Taliyah vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Taliyah
based on 914 Taliyah vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Tahm Kench
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Taliyah in LoL
The stats provided here show several important Taliyah against Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences between the pair. Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Taliyah often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually fairs equally well when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Taliyah makes an ok counter to Tahm Kench.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Taliyah also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Taliyah into Tahm Kench.
Additionally, Taliyah has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter to Tahm Kench. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taliyah against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Taliyah to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Taliyah versus Tahm Kench build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other common builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Taliyah, Taliyah players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Taliyah vs Tahm Kench battles, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Tahm Kench as Taliyah are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.