Lucian vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Lucian
based on 5,122 Lucian vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lucian vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Lucian vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Lucian
Tips for Playing as Lucian against Tahm Kench
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Lucian in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several valuable Lucian against Tahm Kench counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Lucian normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lucian and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Lucian or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lucian usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Lucian makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Lucian does have a lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Lucian also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Lucian into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Lucian has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 Lucian vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Lucian is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lucian against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lucian to counter Tahm Kench during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian often accumulates more CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Lucian versus Tahm Kench build include Rapid Firecannon, Stormrazor, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lucian boasted an average win rate of 46.9% when countering Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Lucian, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Lucian vs Tahm Kench battles, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.9% win rate overall.
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