K'Sante vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as K'Sante
based on 1,354 K'Sante vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Tahm Kench
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with K'Sante in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable K'Sante versus Tahm Kench counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench..
K'Sante typically has a similar longest kill spree as their matchup does. Typically, they receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 46.2% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking K'Sante into Tahm Kenchas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, K'Sante 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
K'Sante is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master K'Sante in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your K'Sante versus Tahm Kench build include Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better vs Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 46.2% when playing against Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Tahm Kench as K'Sante, K'Sante players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Tahm Kench counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.2% win rate overall.
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