Tahm Kench vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Tahm Kench
based on 3,928 Tahm Kench vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Briar
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
Tahm Kench vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some strategic Tahm Kench against Briar matchup stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Briar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Briar..
Tahm Kench usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Briar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Briar
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Briar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually fairs equally well when playing against Briar, with a 50.7% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes an ok counter for Briar.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher winrate than Briar, when on opposite teams, Tahm Kench also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Tahm Kench into Briar.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Briar matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Tahm Kench is a decent counter to Briar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Tahm Kench against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to counter Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench usually accumulates much more CS as Briar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Tahm Kench versus Briar build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Briar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 50.7% battling Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Briar as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Tahm Kench vs Briar counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Briar as Tahm Kench are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.