Tahm Kench vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Tahm Kench
based on 2,853 Tahm Kench vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Tahm Kench vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several critical Tahm Kench against Sylas matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sylas..
Tahm Kench often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Sylas. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Sylas
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Sylas?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually wins when facing off against Sylas, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes a good counter for Sylas.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher win rate compared to Sylas, when facing 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 Sylas.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sylas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Sylas matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Tahm Kench is a decent counter to Sylas. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tahm Kench against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to counter Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Sylas. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Tahm Kench versus Sylas build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Sylas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 51.0% when countering Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Sylas as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players 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 sets players picked for Tahm Kench vs Sylas counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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