Tahm Kench vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Tahm Kench
based on 2,320 Tahm Kench vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Irelia
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.
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Tahm Kench vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown here show several vital Tahm Kench versus Irelia counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia..
Tahm Kench normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Irelia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when playing against Irelia, with a 53.1% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes a great counter to Irelia.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher win rate than Irelia, when they face off with one another, Tahm Kench also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Tahm Kench into Irelia.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Irelia matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Tahm Kench is a great counter to Irelia. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tahm Kench against Irelia.
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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 Irelia 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench typically gets less CS compared to Irelia. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Tahm Kench versus Irelia build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Irelia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 53.1% when countering Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Irelia as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Tahm Kench vs Irelia counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.1% winrate overall.
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