Tahm Kench vs Vayne
How to Beat Vayne as Tahm Kench
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Tahm Kench vs Vayne Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Vayne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vayne as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Vayne
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 Vayne
Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Tahm Kench vs Vayne Counter Stats
How to Counter Vayne with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some valuable Tahm Kench vs. Vayne matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vayne’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vayne..
Tahm Kench normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Vayne. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Vayne
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Vayne?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually loses when playing against Vayne, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Tahm Kench makes a poor counter to Vayne.
While Tahm Kench does have a lower winrate compared to Vayne, when on opposite teams, Tahm Kench also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tahm Kench into Vayne.
Moreover, Tahm Kench has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vayne. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench vs Vayne matchups, Vayne is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Tahm Kench is a somewhat poor counter to Vayne. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tahm Kench against Vayne.
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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 Vayne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Vayne. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Tahm Kench versus Vayne build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Vayne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when playing against Vayne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Vayne as Tahm Kench, Tahm Kench players should equip 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 picked for Tahm Kench vs Vayne fights, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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