Braum vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Braum
based on 378 Braum vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Braum vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Braum vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Braum
Tips for Playing as Braum against Tahm Kench
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Advice to Win Against Tahm Kench
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!
Braum vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Braum in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some significant Braum against Tahm Kench counter stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champions. Braum’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Braum may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Braum normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Braum and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Braum or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Braum usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 47.4% win rate. Therefore, Braum makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Braum does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Braum also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Braum into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Braum also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Braum 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 allied champions during team fights.
Braum is a bad counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Braum against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Braum in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Braum most often accumulates a lot less CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Braum versus Tahm Kench build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Knight's Vow, and Pauldrons of Whiterock. When Braum combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Tahm Kench than with most other typical builds. In fact, Braum had an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Tahm Kench as Braum, Braum players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Braum vs Tahm Kench counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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