Vel'Koz vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Vel'Koz
based on 1,814 Vel'Koz vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Tahm Kench
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some vital Vel'Koz versus Tahm Kench counter stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
Vel'Koz normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter to Tahm Kench.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower win rate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Vel'Koz into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz also has some 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 is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a somewhat poor counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Tahm Kench build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Tahm Kench than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 49.4% when countering Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Tahm Kench as Vel'Koz, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Tahm Kench matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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