Graves vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Graves
based on 3,846 Graves vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Tahm Kench
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several critical Graves against Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench..
Graves usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Graves or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 47.3% win rate. As a result, Graves makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Graves does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Graves also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Graves into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Graves has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves 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.
Graves is a trash counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Graves against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Graves 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves usually picks up less CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Graves versus Tahm Kench build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 47.3% when playing against Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Tahm Kench as Graves, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Graves vs Tahm Kench counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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