Brand vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Brand
based on 5,930 Brand vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Tahm Kench
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Brand in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several influential Brand versus Tahm Kench counter stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between this set of champions. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Brand usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Brand or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 51.2% win rate. As a result, Brand makes a good counter to Tahm Kench.
While Brand does have a higher win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Tahm Kench matchups, Brand is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Brand is a decent counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Brand against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically accumulates less CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Brand versus Tahm Kench build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Brand combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 51.2% when playing against Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Brand, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Brand vs Tahm Kench counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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