Warwick vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Warwick
based on 4,054 Warwick vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Tahm Kench
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Warwick in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several important Warwick against Tahm Kench counter stats that can help you understand the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench..
Warwick normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Warwick and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Warwick or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Warwick usually fairs equally well when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Warwick makes an ok counter for Tahm Kench.
While Warwick does have a lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Warwick also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Warwick into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Warwick has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Warwick is a somewhat poor counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Warwick against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Warwick in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick often gets less CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Warwick versus Tahm Kench build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Tahm Kench than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Warwick had an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Tahm Kench as Warwick, Warwick players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Warwick vs Tahm Kench fights, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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