Caitlyn vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Caitlyn
based on 8,839 Caitlyn vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Tahm Kench
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Caitlyn in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Caitlyn vs. Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Caitlyn normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Caitlyn usually loses when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 46.7% win rate. As a result, Caitlyn makes a poor counter for Tahm Kench.
While Caitlyn does have a lower winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Caitlyn also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Caitlyn into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Caitlyn also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Caitlyn is a terribly counter to Tahm Kench. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Caitlyn against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to counter Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Caitlyn versus Tahm Kench build consist of Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Caitlyn combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Tahm Kench than with most other typical builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 46.7% battling Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Tahm Kench as Caitlyn, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Caitlyn vs Tahm Kench counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.7% win rate overall.
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