Cho'Gath vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Cho'Gath
based on 1,989 Cho'Gath vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cho'Gath vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath against Tahm Kench
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
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.
Cho'Gath vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Cho'Gath in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some critical Cho'Gath vs. Tahm Kench counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench..
Cho'Gath often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Tahm Kench. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Cho'Gath and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Cho'Gath or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Cho'Gath makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Cho'Gath does have a lower winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Cho'Gath also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Cho'Gath into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Cho'Gath 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 trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Cho'Gath is a bad counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Cho'Gath against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath often racks up a similar amount of CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Cho'Gath versus Tahm Kench build include Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Cho'Gath combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Tahm Kench than with many other common builds. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average win rate of 47.3% battling Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Tahm Kench as Cho'Gath, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Cho'Gath vs Tahm Kench battles, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
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