Tahm Kench vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Tahm Kench
based on 3,675 Tahm Kench vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Varus Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Tahm Kench Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Varus as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Tahm Kench vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several critical Tahm Kench vs. Varus counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Varus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Varus..
Tahm Kench typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Varus. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Varus
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Varus?
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 trying to fight Varus, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Tahm Kench makes a good counter for Varus.
While Tahm Kench does have a higher win rate than Varus, when on opposite teams, Tahm Kench also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Tahm Kench into Varus.
Additionally, Tahm Kench also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Varus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Varus matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Tahm Kench is an above average counter to Varus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tahm Kench against Varus.
Other Champion Matchups Against Tahm Kench
Additional Information for Tahm Kench Players
How We Calculated Our Tahm Kench vs Varus Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to counter Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Varus. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Tahm Kench versus Varus build include Heartsteel, Solstice Sleigh, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Varus than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 52.5% when playing against Varus with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Varus as Tahm Kench, you 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 sets we have analyed for Tahm Kench vs Varus matchups, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
If you need to see Tahm Kench vs Varus tips and matchup stats and build suggestions for a a particular rank, please choose one from the selection menu displayed above. By default, the stats and guides given are computed using all matches played with both champs.