Tahm Kench vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Tahm Kench
based on 645 Tahm Kench vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Tahm Kench vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Tahm Kench against Elise counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Elise..
Tahm Kench often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Elise. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Elise
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Elise?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when playing against Elise, with a 55.2% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes a fantastic counter to Elise.
While Tahm Kench does have a much higher win rate compared to Elise, when facing one another, Tahm Kench also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Tahm Kench into Elise.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Elise 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 team members during team fights.
Tahm Kench is a great counter to Elise. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Tahm Kench against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Tahm Kench in order to counter Elise during both the early game 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 mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench on average accumulates much more CS relative to Elise. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Tahm Kench versus Elise build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Elise than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 55.2% battling Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Elise as Tahm Kench, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Tahm Kench vs Elise counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.2% winrate overall.
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