Pyke vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Pyke
based on 3,019 Pyke vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Tahm Kench
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
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.
Pyke vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Pyke in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several significant Pyke versus Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between the two. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Pyke usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pyke and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Pyke or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes an ok counter to Tahm Kench.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Pyke also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Pyke into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often gets a lot less CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Pyke versus Tahm Kench build consist of Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Celestial Opposition. When Pyke bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 49.4% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Tahm Kench as Pyke, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Pyke vs Tahm Kench matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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