Katarina vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Katarina
based on 3,130 Katarina vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Tahm Kench
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Katarina versus Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Katarina or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Katarina into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has almost no 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Katarina is a garbage counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Katarina versus Tahm Kench build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Tahm Kench than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 47.7% battling Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Tahm Kench as Katarina, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina vs Tahm Kench counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
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