Sion vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Sion
based on 2,391 Sion vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sion vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Sion vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Sion
Tips for Playing as Sion against Tahm Kench
Roar of the Slayer is a great setup ability to land a very powerful Decimating Smash.
The Soul Furnace buff displays how much shield strength is remaining, use this information to time its explosion perfectly.
You only have very slight turning ability during Unstoppable Onslaught, so make sure to use it in straight paths.
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.
Sion vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Sion in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Sion vs. Tahm Kench counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the two. Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in deaths.
Sion often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sion and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Sion or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sion usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Sion makes a poor counter to Tahm Kench.
While Sion does have a lower winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Sion also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Sion into Tahm Kench.
Additionally, Sion also has a good amount of utility and CC, 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 is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sion vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Sion is a somewhat poor counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Sion against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sion 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion often racks up more CS as Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Sion versus Tahm Kench build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Tahm Kench than with most other common item sets. In fact, Sion had an average winrate of 48.3% when countering Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Tahm Kench as Sion, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Minion Dematerializer, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Sion vs Tahm Kench matchups, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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