Lux vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Lux
based on 9,182 Lux vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Tahm Kench
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Lux against Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Lux often has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Lux or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lux usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Lux makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Lux does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Lux also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lux into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Lux has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lux is a trash counter to Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Lux against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lux in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Lux versus Tahm Kench build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Lux included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lux boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when countering Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Lux, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Lux vs Tahm Kench LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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