Tahm Kench vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Tahm Kench
based on 2,439 Tahm Kench vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Karma
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 Karma
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
Tahm Kench vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Tahm Kench against Karma matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between these two champions. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Karma..
Tahm Kench usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Karma. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Karma
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Karma?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when taking on Karma, with a 54.2% win rate. As a result, Tahm Kench makes a great counter for Karma.
While Tahm Kench does have a much higher win rate compared to Karma, when they face off with one another, Tahm Kench also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Tahm Kench into Karma.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter 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 Karma 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 teamfights.
Tahm Kench is a great counter to Karma. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tahm Kench against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Tahm Kench to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench often racks up more CS relative to Karma. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Tahm Kench versus Karma build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Karma than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 54.2% when countering Karma with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Karma as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should use 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 rune sets players used for Tahm Kench vs Karma counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.2% winrate overall.
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