Leona vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Leona
based on 3,526 Leona vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Tahm Kench
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some important Leona vs. Tahm Kench counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona 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.
Leona normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Leona or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes an ok counter to Tahm Kench.
While Leona does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Leona into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Leona has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Leona is a somewhat poor counter to Tahm Kench. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Leona 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Leona versus Tahm Kench build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Tahm Kench as Leona, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Leona vs Tahm Kench counters, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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