Briar vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Briar
based on 3,928 Briar vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Briar
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.
Briar vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Briar in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some significant Briar vs. Tahm Kench matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in killsdeaths.
Briar often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Briar and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Briar or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Briar usually fairs equally well when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Briar makes an ok counter to Tahm Kench.
While Briar does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Briar also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Briar into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Briar vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Briar is a somewhat poor counter to Tahm Kench. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Briar to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Briar versus Tahm Kench build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Briar used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better vs. Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 49.3% when countering Tahm Kench with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Briar, Briar players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Briar vs Tahm Kench counters, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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