Irelia vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Irelia
based on 2,320 Irelia vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Tahm Kench
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several strategic Irelia against Tahm Kench matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Irelia normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Irelia or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 46.9% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a poor counter for Tahm Kench.
While Irelia does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Irelia into Tahm Kench.
Additionally, Irelia 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 facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Irelia 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 teammates during team fights.
Irelia is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia usually gets more CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Irelia versus Tahm Kench build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other common builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 46.9% when countering Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Tahm Kench as Irelia, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Irelia vs Tahm Kench counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
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