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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several significant Qiyana vs. Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champs. Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Qiyana often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Qiyana usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 44.5% win rate. Thus, Qiyana makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Qiyana does have a much lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Qiyana also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Qiyana into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Qiyana has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Qiyana 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Qiyana is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Qiyana against Tahm Kench.
To learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana 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 tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Qiyana versus Tahm Kench build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Qiyana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Qiyana had an average winrate of 44.5% when countering Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Tahm Kench as Qiyana, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Qiyana vs Tahm Kench counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.5% winrate overall.
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