League of Legends Champion Tahm Kench Tahm Kench is in the a tier of champions

Tahm Kench

Support Tank
Tahm Kench is a support Role support
Difficulty Average
Power Spike Late-Game
An Acquired Taste ability p
Tongue Lash ability q
Abyssal Dive ability w
Thick Skin ability e
Devour ability r
Stats Build Counters
Runes
Synergies
top
support

Tahm Kench Build

based on 19,656 matches
Win Rate
48.5 %
Pick Rate
2.6 %
Ban Rate
1.2 %

How We Come Up with Our Tahm Kench Builds

We process over 1 Million League of Legends games every day to bring you the most accurate Tahm Kench build so you can destroy your enemies and improve you win rate. We've broken down our Tahm Kench builds by rank, position, and enemy team type, so you can find the most accurate set of Tahm Kench core items and runes for any situation.

Tahm Kench Build Summary

Tahm Kench is a a below average top lane champion in League of Legends. His best rune sets are Resolve Precision. Adding the selected runes shown below into your Tahm Kench build will provide you the additional bonuses to guarantee he plays well through the laning phase of the game and into the late game. You should start by building up his q ability first.

Best Build for Tahm Kench

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Null-Magic MantleBami's Cinder

Core Tahm Kench Items

~22 Mins
Frostfire GauntletFrozen HeartForce of NatureMercury's Treads

Optional Items

Warmog's ArmorTitanic HydraDemonic EmbraceDead Man's Plate

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Tahm Kench to level up q
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Second ability for Tahm Kench to level up w
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Last skill for Tahm Kench to max out e

Runes

Resolve Grasp of the Undying DemolishSecond WindRevitalize
Precision TriumphLegend: Tenacity
AttackSpeed MagicRes HealthScaling
Tahm Kench's passive ability p
Tahm Kench q ability q
Tahm Kench w ability w
Tahm Kench e ability e
Tahm Kench's ultimate ability r
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Tahm Kench Matchups Overview

Tahm Kench is Weak Against

Singed Singed 38.8% winrate Volibear Volibear 42.6% winrate Mordekaiser Mordekaiser 42.6% winrate Gragas Gragas 43.6% winrate

Tahm Kench is Strong Against

Irelia Irelia 54.7% winrate Quinn Quinn 54.2% winrate Tryndamere Tryndamere 54% winrate Wukong Wukong 53.3% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

Seraphine Seraphine + 54.3% 151 Games Swain Swain + 54.9% 350 Games Master Yi Master Yi + 56.4% 1109 Games Neeko Neeko + 57.6% 85 Games

More Gameplay Tips for Tahm Kench Players

Tips and Tricks

Activate Tahm Kench's Thick Skin at the right time, around 40-50% health is best.

Devour can be used on an enemy champion or an allied carry to save them. Stay near your carries to protect them.

Additional Tahm Kench Build Insights

League of Legends Tahm Kench players will likely find him to be a challenging champ to build out properly. You will notice that his build varies when he is up against either diversified or homogenous team compositions, meaning you shouldn't follow the same Tahm Kench build every single game of League of Legends

The most essential items to use in your champ's build are: Frostfire Gauntlet, Frozen Heart, and Force of Nature. Players who included these pieces in their kits had a much higher win rate than those who tried for other item builds for Tahm Kench. Moreover, if you are trying to beat a well-mixed enemy team composition, you should really consider grabbing yourself the Resolve, and Precision runes. In recent matches, he won the greatest percentage of his matches when built with these runes.

We established our Tahm Kench build recommendations by analyzing 19,656 recently ranked League matches with him in them. We only recommend the highest winrate Tahm Kench builds that were built by ranked gamers enough times for us to advise them. With so many games in our dataset, we are very confident in our suggested builds.