Tahm Kench vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Tahm Kench
based on 4,218 Tahm Kench vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Tahm Kench vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several significant Tahm Kench against Kayn matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayn’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kayn..
Tahm Kench usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kayn. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Kayn
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Kayn?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when taking on Kayn, with a 52.3% win rate. As a result, Tahm Kench makes a good counter to Kayn.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher win rate compared to Kayn, when they face off with one another, Tahm Kench also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Tahm Kench into Kayn.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayn. This 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 Kayn matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Tahm Kench is a good counter for Kayn. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tahm Kench against Kayn.
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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 Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench typically picks up much more CS relative to Kayn. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Tahm Kench versus Kayn build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Solstice Sleigh. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Kayn than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 52.3% battling Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Kayn as Tahm Kench, you should take 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 combinations that we analyzed for Tahm Kench vs Kayn face-offs, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.3% win rate overall.
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