Nautilus vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Nautilus
based on 3,878 Nautilus vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Tahm Kench
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
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.
Nautilus vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Nautilus in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several critical Nautilus versus Tahm Kench counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between these two champions. Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Nautilus often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 47.3% win rate. As a result, Nautilus makes a poor counter for Tahm Kench.
While Nautilus does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Nautilus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nautilus into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Nautilus also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nautilus 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 allied champions during team fights.
Nautilus is a garbage counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nautilus against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nautilus 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus on average racks up a lot less CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Nautilus versus Tahm Kench build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Tahm Kench than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 47.3% when playing against Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Tahm Kench as Nautilus, Nautilus players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nautilus vs Tahm Kench counter picks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.3% winrate overall.
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