Kassadin vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Kassadin
based on 1,117 Kassadin vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Tahm Kench
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several valuable Kassadin versus Tahm Kench matchup stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Kassadin often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually fairs equally well when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Kassadin makes an ok counter to Tahm Kench.
While Kassadin does have a higher winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Kassadin also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kassadin into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kassadin also has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Tahm Kench matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kassadin is a decent counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kassadin against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kassadin to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kassadin versus Tahm Kench build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Malignance. When Kassadin combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when playing against Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Tahm Kench as Kassadin, Kassadin players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Kassadin vs Tahm Kench counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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