Tahm Kench vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Tahm Kench
based on 1,194 Tahm Kench vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Naafiri
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.
Tahm Kench vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several critical Tahm Kench versus Naafiri matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences between the two. Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Naafiri’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Naafiri..
Tahm Kench usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Naafiri. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Naafiri
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Naafiri?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually loses when playing against Naafiri, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes a poor counter for Naafiri.
While Tahm Kench does have a lower win rate than Naafiri, when facing one another, Tahm Kench also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Tahm Kench into Naafiri.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Naafiri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Naafiri matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Tahm Kench is a somewhat poor counter to Naafiri. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Tahm Kench against Naafiri.
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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 Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Naafiri. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench versus Naafiri build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Naafiri than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Naafiri with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Naafiri as Tahm Kench, you should use 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 Naafiri battles, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Naafiri as Tahm Kench are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.