Akshan vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Akshan
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Akshan vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Tahm Kench
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several critical Akshan versus Tahm Kench matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench..
Akshan typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. On average, they takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a poor counter to Tahm Kench.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Akshan into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Akshan versus Tahm Kench build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan used at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better against Tahm Kench than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 47.2% battling Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Tahm Kench as Akshan, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Akshan vs Tahm Kench counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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