Zeri vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Zeri
based on 980 Zeri vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zeri vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Zeri vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Zeri
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.
Zeri vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Zeri in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several significant Zeri vs. Tahm Kench matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench..
Zeri normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Typically, they receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zeri and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Zeri or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zeri usually loses when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Zeri makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Zeri does have a lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Zeri also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Zeri into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Zeri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zeri is a terribly counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zeri against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zeri in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri most often accumulates more CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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 require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zeri versus Tahm Kench build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Runaan's Hurricane, and Navori Quickblades. When Zeri combined at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better when facing Tahm Kench than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zeri had an average win rate of 47.3% when playing against Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Tahm Kench as Zeri, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Zeri vs Tahm Kench fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.3% win rate overall.
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