Tahm Kench vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Tahm Kench
based on 9,182 Tahm Kench vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Tahm Kench vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats provided here feature several important Tahm Kench versus Lux counter statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lux’s ratio of NaN, showing that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lux..
Tahm Kench normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Lux. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Lux
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Lux?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when trying to fight Lux, with a 53.0% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes a good counter for Lux.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher winrate compared to Lux, when facing one another, Tahm Kench also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Tahm Kench into Lux.
Moreover, Tahm Kench has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lux. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Lux 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 an above average counter to Lux. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Tahm Kench against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench in order to counter Lux during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Lux. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Tahm Kench versus Lux build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Lux than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 53.0% battling Lux with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Lux 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 rune combinations players picked for Tahm Kench vs Lux clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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