Tahm Kench vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Tahm Kench
based on 2,072 Tahm Kench vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Tahm Kench vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown here show some critical Tahm Kench vs. Soraka counter stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Soraka. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Tahm Kench usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Soraka. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Soraka
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when playing against Soraka, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes a good counter to Soraka.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher winrate than Soraka, when they face off with one another, Tahm Kench also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Tahm Kench into Soraka.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Soraka matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Tahm Kench is a decent counter for Soraka. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tahm Kench against Soraka.
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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 Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench usually gets much more CS compared to Soraka. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Tahm Kench versus Soraka build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Soraka than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 51.6% battling Soraka with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Soraka as Tahm Kench, you should equip 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 runes players used for Tahm Kench vs Soraka fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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