Nidalee vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Nidalee
based on 600 Nidalee vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Tahm Kench
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several influential Nidalee against Tahm Kench counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Nidalee normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 44.2% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Tahm Kench.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter to Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane 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 suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average accumulates less CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nidalee versus Tahm Kench build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Tahm Kench than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 44.2% when countering Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Tahm Kench as Nidalee, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Nidalee vs Tahm Kench face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.2% win rate overall.
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