Vayne vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Vayne
based on 5,673 Vayne vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Tahm Kench
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several strategic Vayne against Tahm Kench matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between these two champs. Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Vayne often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Vayne or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vayne usually wins when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes a good counter for Tahm Kench.
While Vayne does have a higher win rate than Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Vayne also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vayne into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vayne has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Tahm Kench matchups, Vayne is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vayne is a decent counter to Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vayne against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vayne in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Vayne versus Tahm Kench build consist of Wit's End, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Vayne combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Tahm Kench than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vayne had an average win rate of 51.3% when playing against Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Tahm Kench as Vayne, Vayne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Vayne vs Tahm Kench counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
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