Talon vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Talon
based on 1,834 Talon vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Tahm Kench
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Advice to Win Against Tahm Kench
When you see Tahm Kench use the shield from Thick Skin, remember that he just opted out of a good deal of healing. He will also not accumulate new gray health until Thick Skin comes off cooldown. Use this to your advantage!
Watch out for Kench's Abyssal Dive - you can cancel it's channel with immobilizing crowd control effects.
Talon vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Talon in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Talon against Tahm Kench counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Talon often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Talon and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Talon or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Talon usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 47.0% win rate. Therefore, Talon makes a poor counter for Tahm Kench.
While Talon does have a lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Talon also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Talon into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Talon has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Talon vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Talon is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Talon against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Talon to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Talon versus Tahm Kench build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Talon used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Tahm Kench than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 47.0% when playing against Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Tahm Kench as Talon, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Talon vs Tahm Kench counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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