Tahm Kench vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Tahm Kench
based on 3,665 Tahm Kench vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Maokai Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Maokai
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 Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Tahm Kench vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some critical Tahm Kench versus Maokai counter statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai..
Tahm Kench usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Maokai
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Maokai, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes an ok counter to Maokai.
While Tahm Kench does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Tahm Kench also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tahm Kench into Maokai.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Tahm Kench is a somewhat poor counter for Maokai. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Tahm Kench against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Tahm Kench to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench usually gets more CS relative to Maokai. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Tahm Kench versus Maokai build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Maokai as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Tahm Kench vs Maokai clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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