Garen vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Garen
based on 3,388 Garen vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Tahm Kench
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Garen in LoL
The stats shown here show several valuable Garen versus Tahm Kench counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench..
Garen usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Garen or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 45.9% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Garen does have a much lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Garen into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen 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 team members during team fights.
Garen is a trash counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Garen against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen in order 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Garen versus Tahm Kench build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 45.9% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Tahm Kench as Garen, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Garen vs Tahm Kench counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.9% winrate overall.
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