Tahm Kench vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Tahm Kench
based on 2,391 Tahm Kench vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Sion
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 Sion
Use the time after Sion has died to reposition and prepare for his return.
Even if Sion still hits a Decimating Smash, making him release the charge earlier reduces its impact.
Tahm Kench vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several important Tahm Kench vs. Sion counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Sion..
Tahm Kench normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Sion. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Sion
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Sion?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when facing off against Sion, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes a good counter for Sion.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher win rate compared to Sion, when facing one another, Tahm Kench also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Tahm Kench into Sion.
Additionally, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Sion matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Tahm Kench is a decent counter to Sion. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tahm Kench against Sion.
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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 Sion during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench typically gets less CS compared to Sion. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Tahm Kench versus Sion build consist of Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Sion than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 51.7% when countering Sion with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Sion 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. Of all the rune builds players chose for Tahm Kench vs Sion clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
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