Diana vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Diana
based on 3,534 Diana vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Tahm Kench
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
Diana vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Diana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some valuable Diana vs. Tahm Kench counter statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Diana usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Diana and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Diana or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Diana usually loses when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Diana makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Diana does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Diana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Diana into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Diana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Diana vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Diana is a terribly counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Diana against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Diana in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't need 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 situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Diana versus Tahm Kench build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Diana combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Diana had an average win rate of 47.1% when playing against Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Tahm Kench as Diana, Diana players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Diana vs Tahm Kench battles, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
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