Ahri vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Ahri
based on 2,614 Ahri vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Tahm Kench
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some critical Ahri versus Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Ahri usually has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Ahri or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ahri into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Ahri also 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a bad counter to Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Tahm Kench build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 47.6% when countering Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Tahm Kench as Ahri, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Ahri vs Tahm Kench counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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