Ryze vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Ryze
based on 848 Ryze vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Tahm Kench
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Ryze in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Ryze vs. Tahm Kench matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champions. Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench..
Ryze often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ryze and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Ryze or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ryze usually loses when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 46.3% win rate. Thus, Ryze makes a poor counter for Tahm Kench.
While Ryze does have a lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Ryze also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Ryze into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ryze 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ryze is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ryze against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ryze to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze most often accumulates more CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Ryze versus Tahm Kench build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Tahm Kench than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ryze had an average winrate of 46.3% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Tahm Kench as Ryze, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Ryze vs Tahm Kench fights, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.3% win rate overall.
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