Kog'Maw vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Kog'Maw
based on 758 Kog'Maw vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Tahm Kench
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several strategic Kog'Maw against Tahm Kench matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in deaths.
Kog'Maw normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually fairs equally well when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Kog'Maw makes an ok counter for Tahm Kench.
While Kog'Maw does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Kog'Maw also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kog'Maw into Tahm Kench.
Additionally, Kog'Maw also 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kog'Maw is a somewhat poor counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kog'Maw against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw 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 pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Kog'Maw versus Tahm Kench build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Tahm Kench than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Tahm Kench as Kog'Maw, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kog'Maw vs Tahm Kench fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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