Tahm Kench vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Tahm Kench
based on 1,384 Tahm Kench vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Poppy
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 Poppy
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
Tahm Kench vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable Tahm Kench versus Poppy matchup stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Poppy..
Tahm Kench usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Poppy. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Poppy
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Poppy?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when trying to fight Poppy, with a 55.1% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes a fantastic counter to Poppy.
While Tahm Kench does have a much higher win rate than Poppy, when on opposite teams, Tahm Kench also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Tahm Kench into Poppy.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Poppy matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Tahm Kench is a great counter for Poppy. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tahm Kench against Poppy.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to counter Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench on average accumulates more CS compared to Poppy. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Tahm Kench versus Poppy build include Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Poppy than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 55.1% when countering Poppy with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Poppy 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. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Tahm Kench vs Poppy clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.1% win rate overall.
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