Ziggs vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Ziggs
based on 1,351 Ziggs vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Tahm Kench
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Ziggs in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Ziggs vs. Tahm Kench matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Ziggs normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ziggs and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 45.6% win rate. Therefore, Ziggs makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Ziggs does have a much lower winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Ziggs into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Ziggs has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a garbage counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ziggs against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ziggs to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Ziggs versus Tahm Kench build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Tahm Kench than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average win rate of 45.6% battling Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Tahm Kench as Ziggs, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Ziggs vs Tahm Kench clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.6% win rate overall.
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