Zilean vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Zilean
based on 1,001 Zilean vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Tahm Kench
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby 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.
Zilean vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Zilean in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several valuable Zilean vs. Tahm Kench counter stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Zilean often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zilean and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Zilean or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zilean usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Zilean makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Zilean does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Zilean also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Zilean into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Zilean also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zilean 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Zilean is a garbage counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zilean against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zilean 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean often accumulates less CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually 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 crucial items to focus on in your Zilean versus Tahm Kench build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 47.9% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Tahm Kench as Zilean, Zilean players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Zilean vs Tahm Kench counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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