Elise vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Elise
based on 645 Elise vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Tahm Kench
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Elise in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some critical Elise vs. Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench..
Elise usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Elise or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 44.8% win rate. Thus, Elise makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Elise does have a much lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Elise into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Elise has almost no 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Elise 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Elise is a garbage counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Elise against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning 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 displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise most often racks up a lot less CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Elise versus Tahm Kench build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 44.8% when countering Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Tahm Kench as Elise, Elise players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Elise vs Tahm Kench battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.8% winrate overall.
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