Nunu & Willump vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Nunu & Willump
based on 2,132 Nunu & Willump vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Tahm Kench
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some vital Nunu & Willump vs. Tahm Kench counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between these two champions. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Nunu & Willump typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 43.6% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Nunu & Willump does have a much lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nunu & Willump into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump also has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a garbage counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nunu & Willump 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually racks up a lot less CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nunu & Willump versus Tahm Kench build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 43.6% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Nunu & Willump, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Nunu & Willump vs Tahm Kench face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 43.6% winrate overall.
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