Tahm Kench vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Tahm Kench
based on 3,831 Tahm Kench vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Tahm Kench vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats provided here show some valuable Tahm Kench against Malphite counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champs. Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Malphite..
Tahm Kench typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Malphite. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Malphite
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Malphite?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when taking on Malphite, with a 54.5% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes a great counter for Malphite.
While Tahm Kench does have a much higher winrate than Malphite, when facing one another, Tahm Kench also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Tahm Kench into Malphite.
Additionally, Tahm Kench has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Malphite matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Tahm Kench is a great counter for Malphite. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tahm Kench against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench in order to counter Malphite 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 mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Malphite. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Tahm Kench versus Malphite build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Malphite than with most other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 54.5% when countering Malphite with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Malphite 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 builds players chose for Tahm Kench vs Malphite LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.5% win rate overall.
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