Xayah vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Xayah
based on 1,418 Xayah vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Tahm Kench
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Xayah in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several strategic Xayah vs. Tahm Kench matchup stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench..
Xayah normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Xayah or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually loses when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 45.1% win rate. Thus, Xayah makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Xayah does have a much lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Xayah also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Xayah into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Xayah has almost no 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Xayah is a bad counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Xayah versus Tahm Kench build consist of Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xayah boasted an average win rate of 45.1% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Tahm Kench as Xayah, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Xayah vs Tahm Kench face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.1% winrate overall.
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