Illaoi vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Illaoi
based on 1,902 Illaoi vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Tahm Kench
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several critical Illaoi vs. Tahm Kench matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Illaoi often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Tahm Kench.
While Illaoi does have a lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Illaoi has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi 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.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi often picks up more CS as Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Tahm Kench build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when countering Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Tahm Kench as Illaoi, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Illaoi vs Tahm Kench battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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