Tahm Kench vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Tahm Kench
based on 1,525 Tahm Kench vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Alistar
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Tahm Kench vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several vital Tahm Kench against Alistar counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Tahm Kench normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Alistar. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Alistar
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Alistar?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when taking on Alistar, with a 54.9% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes a great counter to Alistar.
While Tahm Kench does have a much higher winrate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Tahm Kench also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Tahm Kench into Alistar.
Additionally, Tahm Kench has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Alistar matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Tahm Kench is a great counter for Alistar. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Tahm Kench against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench on average picks up much more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Tahm Kench versus Alistar build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 54.9% when countering Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Alistar as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Tahm Kench vs Alistar LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.9% win rate overall.
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