Gnar vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Gnar
based on 1,002 Gnar vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Tahm Kench
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some strategic Gnar versus Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Gnar typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Gnar or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 45.1% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Gnar does have a much lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a bad counter for Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Gnar versus Tahm Kench build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 45.1% when countering Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Tahm Kench as Gnar, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Gnar vs Tahm Kench clashes, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Tahm Kench as Gnar are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.