Bard vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Bard
based on 2,538 Bard vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Tahm Kench
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Bard in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several vital Bard vs. Tahm Kench counter stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard 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.
Bard often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Bard or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Bard makes an ok counter to Tahm Kench.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Bard into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Tahm Kench matchups, Bard is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Bard is a decent counter to Tahm Kench. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often racks up a lot less CS as Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Bard versus Tahm Kench build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Tahm Kench than with many other typical builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Tahm Kench as Bard, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Bard vs Tahm Kench counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Tahm Kench as Bard are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.