Swain vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Swain
based on 3,635 Swain vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Tahm Kench
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
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.
Swain vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several significant Swain vs. Tahm Kench matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench..
Swain normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Swain or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter to Tahm Kench.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Tahm Kench matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter to Tahm Kench. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Swain versus Tahm Kench build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 51.4% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Tahm Kench as Swain, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Swain vs Tahm Kench LoL games, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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