Akali vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Akali
based on 5,393 Akali vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Tahm Kench
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several significant Akali versus Tahm Kench matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Akali typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Akali or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Akali does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Akali into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Akali is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter Tahm Kench 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Akali versus Tahm Kench build consist of Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Tahm Kench than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 46.9% battling Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Tahm Kench as Akali, Akali players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Akali vs Tahm Kench counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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