Tahm Kench vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Tahm Kench
based on 3,526 Tahm Kench vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Tahm Kench vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several influential Tahm Kench against Leona counter stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Tahm Kench usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Leona
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Leona, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes an ok counter to Leona.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher winrate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Tahm Kench also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Tahm Kench into Leona.
Additionally, Tahm Kench has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Leona 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 team members during teamfights.
Tahm Kench is a decent counter for Leona. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tahm Kench against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench on average gets much more CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Tahm Kench versus Leona build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Tahm Kench used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Leona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 50.5% battling Leona with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Leona as Tahm Kench, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Tahm Kench vs Leona matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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