Shyvana vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Shyvana
based on 1,265 Shyvana vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Tahm Kench
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Shyvana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some influential Shyvana against Tahm Kench matchup statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Shyvana normally has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shyvana and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 45.7% win rate. Therefore, Shyvana makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Shyvana does have a much lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Shyvana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Shyvana into Tahm Kench.
Moreover, Shyvana has only a small 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 is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Shyvana is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Shyvana against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shyvana 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana typically accumulates less CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Shyvana versus Tahm Kench build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 45.7% when countering Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Tahm Kench as Shyvana, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Shyvana vs Tahm Kench face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
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