Kennen vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Kennen
based on 885 Kennen vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Kennen Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Tahm Kench
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
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.
Kennen vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Kennen in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several strategic Kennen versus Tahm Kench counter statistics that can help us realize the differences between the two. Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Kennen usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Tahm Kench
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Kennen or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kennen usually loses when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 44.1% win rate. Thus, Kennen makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Kennen does have a much lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Kennen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kennen into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Kennen also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kennen is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kennen against Tahm Kench.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kennen
Additional Information for Kennen Players
How We Calculated Our Kennen vs Tahm Kench Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kennen in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kennen versus Tahm Kench build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Tahm Kench than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 44.1% when playing against Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Tahm Kench as Kennen, Kennen players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kennen vs Tahm Kench counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.1% winrate overall.
If you would like to see Kennen x Tahm Kench tips and counter builds for a a specific division, please choose one from the selection menu shown above. If viewing for the first time, the statistics and build suggestions given are computed using all rounds with data with both champs.