Thresh vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Thresh
based on 3,509 Thresh vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Tahm Kench
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Advice to Win Against Tahm Kench
When you see Tahm Kench use the shield from Thick Skin, remember that he just opted out of a good deal of healing. He will also not accumulate new gray health until Thick Skin comes off cooldown. Use this to your advantage!
Watch out for Kench's Abyssal Dive - you can cancel it's channel with immobilizing crowd control effects.
Thresh vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some influential Thresh versus Tahm Kench counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Thresh or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a poor counter to Tahm Kench.
While Thresh does have a much lower winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Thresh into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Thresh is a garbage counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh typically racks up a lot less CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Thresh versus Tahm Kench build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 45.9% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Tahm Kench as Thresh, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Thresh vs Tahm Kench battles, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
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