Tahm Kench vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Tahm Kench
based on 1,265 Tahm Kench vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Shyvana
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 Shyvana
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
Tahm Kench vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several influential Tahm Kench vs. Shyvana matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Shyvana..
Tahm Kench often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Shyvana. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Shyvana?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when playing against Shyvana, with a 54.3% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes a great counter for Shyvana.
While Tahm Kench does have a much higher win rate than Shyvana, when on opposite teams, Tahm Kench also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Tahm Kench into Shyvana.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting 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 Shyvana 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 teammates during team fights.
Tahm Kench is a great counter for Shyvana. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tahm Kench against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to counter Shyvana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench usually racks up more CS relative to Shyvana. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench versus Shyvana build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench included at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Shyvana than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 54.3% when playing against Shyvana with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Shyvana as Tahm Kench, you should use 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 builds that we analyzed for Tahm Kench vs Shyvana LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Shyvana as Tahm Kench are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.