Janna vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Janna
based on 2,269 Janna vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Tahm Kench
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several valuable Janna vs. Tahm Kench matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Janna or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes an ok counter for Tahm Kench.
While Janna does have a higher win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Tahm Kench matchups, Janna is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Janna is a decent counter to Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna usually gets a lot less CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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 require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Janna versus Tahm Kench build include Redemption, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Janna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Tahm Kench than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 50.3% when countering Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Tahm Kench as Janna, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Janna vs Tahm Kench matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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