Shaco vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Shaco
based on 3,170 Shaco vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Tahm Kench
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Shaco in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several significant Shaco against Tahm Kench matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Shaco often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Shaco or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes an ok counter to Tahm Kench.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shaco into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Shaco also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Shaco versus Tahm Kench build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Tahm Kench than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 49.7% battling Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Tahm Kench as Shaco, Shaco players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Shaco vs Tahm Kench clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
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