Tahm Kench vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Tahm Kench
based on 3,867 Tahm Kench vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Tahm Kench vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Tahm Kench against Kai'Sa matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kai'Sa..
Tahm Kench typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Kai'Sa. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Kai'Sa?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when trying to fight Kai'Sa, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes a great counter to Kai'Sa.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher win rate than Kai'Sa, when they face off with one another, Tahm Kench also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Tahm Kench into Kai'Sa.
Moreover, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Kai'Sa matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Tahm Kench is a great counter for Kai'Sa. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tahm Kench against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Tahm Kench to counter Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench typically gets less CS as Kai'Sa. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Tahm Kench versus Kai'Sa build include Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Kai'Sa than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 53.7% when countering Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Kai'Sa as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Tahm Kench vs Kai'Sa battles, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.7% win rate overall.
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