Alistar vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Alistar
based on 1,525 Alistar vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Tahm Kench
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here show some strategic Alistar against Tahm Kench matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Alistar or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 45.1% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Alistar does have a much lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Alistar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Alistar into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar 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 team members during team fights.
Alistar is a bad counter to Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Tahm Kench build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 45.1% when playing against Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Alistar, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Alistar vs Tahm Kench LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.1% win rate overall.
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