Tahm Kench vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Tahm Kench
based on 3,388 Tahm Kench vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Tahm Kench vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several significant Tahm Kench vs. Garen matchup statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between these two champs. Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Tahm Kench typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Garen. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Garen?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when facing off against Garen, with a 54.1% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes a great counter to Garen.
While Tahm Kench does have a much higher win rate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Tahm Kench also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Tahm Kench into Garen.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Garen matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Tahm Kench is a great counter to Garen. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tahm Kench against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench versus Garen build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Solstice Sleigh. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Garen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 54.1% when playing against Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Garen as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Tahm Kench vs Garen counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.1% winrate overall.
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