Yorick vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Yorick
based on 2,076 Yorick vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Tahm Kench
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
Yorick vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Yorick in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several influential Yorick against Tahm Kench counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench..
Yorick typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yorick and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Yorick or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually wins when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 52.8% win rate. As a result, Yorick makes a good counter to Tahm Kench.
While Yorick does have a higher winrate than Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Yorick also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Yorick into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Yorick has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Tahm Kench matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Yorick is a good counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yorick against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Yorick in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick most often accumulates more CS as Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Yorick versus Tahm Kench build consist of Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Tahm Kench than with most other common builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 52.8% when playing against Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Tahm Kench as Yorick, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Yorick vs Tahm Kench face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
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