Urgot vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Urgot
based on 1,683 Urgot vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Urgot vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Urgot
Tips for Playing as Urgot against Tahm Kench
Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
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.
Urgot vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Urgot in LoL
The stats shown here feature some strategic Urgot against Tahm Kench matchup stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench..
Urgot usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Urgot or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Urgot usually loses when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Urgot makes a poor counter for Tahm Kench.
While Urgot does have a lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Urgot also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Urgot into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Urgot has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Urgot vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Urgot is a somewhat poor counter to Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Urgot against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Urgot to counter Tahm Kench 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Urgot versus Tahm Kench build consist of Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Urgot bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Urgot had an average win rate of 48.4% when playing against Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Tahm Kench as Urgot, Urgot players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Urgot vs Tahm Kench face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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