Kayle vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Kayle
based on 2,802 Kayle vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Tahm Kench
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Kayle versus Tahm Kench counter stats that can help us explain the differences between this pair of champs. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Kayle often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate 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 Kayle and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Kayle or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Kayle makes a poor counter to Tahm Kench.
While Kayle does have a lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Kayle also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayle into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle 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 facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a somewhat poor counter to Tahm Kench. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kayle against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kayle in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle often picks up more CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Kayle versus Tahm Kench build consist of Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kayle included at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Tahm Kench than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Tahm Kench as Kayle, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kayle vs Tahm Kench clashes, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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