Nilah vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Nilah
based on 1,472 Nilah vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nilah vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Nilah vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Nilah
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.
Nilah vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Nilah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some important Nilah against Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Nilah normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nilah and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Nilah or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nilah usually wins when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Nilah makes a good counter for Tahm Kench.
While Nilah does have a higher winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Nilah also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nilah into Tahm Kenchas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nilah has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Tahm Kench matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nilah is a decent counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nilah against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nilah in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nilah versus Tahm Kench build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Immortal Shieldbow, and Navori Quickblades. When Nilah included at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better when facing Tahm Kench than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nilah boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when countering Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Tahm Kench as Nilah, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Nilah vs Tahm Kench clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Tahm Kench as Nilah are displayed for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.