Tahm Kench vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Tahm Kench
based on 2,269 Tahm Kench vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Janna
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 Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Tahm Kench vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several strategic Tahm Kench versus Janna matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Janna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Janna..
Tahm Kench typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Janna. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Janna
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Janna?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually fairs equally well when taking on Janna, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes an ok counter for Janna.
While Tahm Kench does have a lower winrate than Janna, when on opposite teams, Tahm Kench also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Tahm Kench into Janna.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Tahm Kench is a somewhat poor counter to Janna. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tahm Kench against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to counter Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench often gets much more CS relative to Janna. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Tahm Kench versus Janna build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Solstice Sleigh. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Janna than with many other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 49.7% when countering Janna with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Janna as Tahm Kench, you 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 sets players picked for Tahm Kench vs Janna fights, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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