Tahm Kench vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Tahm Kench
based on 2,647 Tahm Kench vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Riven
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 Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Tahm Kench vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some influential Tahm Kench vs. Riven matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences between the pair. Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Riven..
Tahm Kench usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Riven. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Riven
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Riven?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually fairs equally well when taking on Riven, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Tahm Kench makes an ok counter for Riven.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher winrate than Riven, when facing one another, Tahm Kench also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tahm Kench into Riven.
Moreover, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Riven matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Tahm Kench is a decent counter to Riven. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tahm Kench against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Riven. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Tahm Kench versus Riven build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Riven than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when countering Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Riven 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Tahm Kench vs Riven fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
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