Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Watch out for Kench's Abyssal Dive - you can cancel it's channel with immobilizing crowd control effects.
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!
The stats provided here clarify some important Ahri vs. Tahm Kench matchup stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Ahri normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 45.7% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Ahri does have a much lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Ahri also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ahri into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of utility and CC, 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 overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a bad counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Tahm Kench.
To truly master Ahri in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Tahm Kench build include Luden's Tempest, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Ahri used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Tahm Kench than with most other common builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 45.7% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Tahm Kench as Ahri, Ahri players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ahri vs Tahm Kench fights, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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