Tahm Kench vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Tahm Kench
based on 4,871 Tahm Kench vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Nocturne
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 Nocturne
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
Tahm Kench vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some important Tahm Kench against Nocturne counter stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nocturne..
Tahm Kench often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nocturne. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Nocturne?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually fairs equally well when facing off against Nocturne, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes an ok counter for Nocturne.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher win rate than Nocturne, when on opposite teams, Tahm Kench also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Tahm Kench into Nocturne.
Additionally, Tahm Kench has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Nocturne matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Tahm Kench is a decent counter for Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tahm Kench against Nocturne.
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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 Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench on average racks up much more CS compared to Nocturne. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench versus Nocturne build consist of Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Tahm Kench used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Nocturne than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when playing against Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Nocturne as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should take 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 runes we have analyed for Tahm Kench vs Nocturne matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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