Azir vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Azir
based on 1,547 Azir vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Tahm Kench
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Azir in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some vital Azir against Tahm Kench counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Azir normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Azir or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Azir does have a lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Azir into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Azir also has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 in League of Legends, in Azir vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Azir against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually picks up more CS as Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Azir versus Tahm Kench build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Void Staff. When Azir bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 48.2% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Tahm Kench as Azir, Azir players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Azir vs Tahm Kench counters, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
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