Samira vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Samira
based on 4,077 Samira vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Samira vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Samira
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.
Samira vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Samira in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several significant Samira against Tahm Kench matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Samira normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Samira and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Samira or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Samira usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Samira makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Samira does have a lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Samira also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Samira into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Samira has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Samira 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 team members during teamfights.
Samira is a garbage counter for Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Samira against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Samira to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Samira versus Tahm Kench build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira used at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 47.4% battling Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Tahm Kench as Samira, Samira players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Samira vs Tahm Kench matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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