Varus vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Varus
based on 3,675 Varus vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Tahm Kench
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Varus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several significant Varus against Tahm Kench counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Varus typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Varus and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Varus or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Varus usually loses when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Varus makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Varus does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Varus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Varus into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Varus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Varus vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Varus is a trash counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Varus versus Tahm Kench build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Varus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 47.5% when playing against Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Varus, Varus players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Varus vs Tahm Kench counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
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