Nasus vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Nasus
based on 3,130 Nasus vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Tahm Kench
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some strategic Nasus vs. Tahm Kench counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench..
Nasus usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Nasus or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a poor counter for Tahm Kench.
While Nasus does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nasus into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Nasus 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a garbage counter to Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nasus versus Tahm Kench build consist of Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 47.7% when countering Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Tahm Kench as Nasus, Nasus players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Nasus vs Tahm Kench face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
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