Tahm Kench vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Tahm Kench
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Tahm Kench vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Tahm Kench vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential Tahm Kench against Taliyah counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Taliyah..
Tahm Kench typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Taliyah. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Taliyah?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually fairs equally well when playing against Taliyah, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes an ok counter to Taliyah.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher winrate than Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Tahm Kench also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Tahm Kench into Taliyah.
Additionally, Tahm Kench has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Taliyah matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Tahm Kench is a decent counter to Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tahm Kench against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to counter Taliyah during both the early game 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 suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Taliyah. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Tahm Kench versus Taliyah build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Taliyah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 50.5% battling Taliyah with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Taliyah as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Tahm Kench vs Taliyah LoL games, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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