Tahm Kench vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Tahm Kench
based on 3,846 Tahm Kench vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Tahm Kench vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Tahm Kench vs. Graves matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Graves..
Tahm Kench usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Graves. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Graves
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Graves?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when taking on Graves, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Tahm Kench makes a good counter to Graves.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher win rate than Graves, when they face off with one another, Tahm Kench also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Tahm Kench into Graves.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Graves matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Tahm Kench is a good counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tahm Kench against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench usually racks up more CS relative to Graves. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench versus Graves build include Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Solstice Sleigh. When Tahm Kench included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Graves than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 52.7% battling Graves with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Graves as Tahm Kench, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Tahm Kench vs Graves matchups, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.7% winrate overall.
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