Veigar vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Veigar
based on 3,225 Veigar vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Tahm Kench
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some valuable Veigar against Tahm Kench counter statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, showing that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Veigar normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Veigar or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 46.4% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Veigar into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar has a good amount 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 in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Veigar is a bad counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Veigar versus Tahm Kench build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Tahm Kench than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 46.4% when playing against Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Tahm Kench as Veigar, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Veigar vs Tahm Kench LoL games, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
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