Zac vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Zac
based on 1,997 Zac vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Tahm Kench
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several critical Zac against Tahm Kench counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench..
Zac usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Zac or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Zac makes a good counter for Tahm Kench.
While Zac does have a higher win rate than Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zac into Tahm Kenchas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zac has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zac vs Tahm Kench matchups, Zac 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 team fights.
Zac is an above average counter for Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zac against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zac in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac typically gets less CS as Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Zac versus Tahm Kench build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Zac bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Tahm Kench than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zac had an average win rate of 52.4% when playing against Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Tahm Kench as Zac, Zac players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Zac vs Tahm Kench LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.4% winrate overall.
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