Rakan vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Rakan
based on 2,545 Rakan vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Tahm Kench
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Rakan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several strategic Rakan vs. Tahm Kench matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Rakan typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Rakan or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually fairs equally well when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Rakan makes an ok counter to Tahm Kench.
While Rakan does have a higher win rate than Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Rakan also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rakan into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Rakan has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Tahm Kench matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Rakan is a decent counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rakan against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan on average gets a lot less CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Rakan versus Tahm Kench build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Rakan combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Tahm Kench than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 50.1% when playing against Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Rakan, Rakan players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Rakan vs Tahm Kench counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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