Zed vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Zed
based on 3,296 Zed vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Tahm Kench
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here show some vital Zed versus Tahm Kench matchup stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tahm Kench. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Zed or Tahm Kench?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when playing against Tahm Kench, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a poor counter for Tahm Kench.
While Zed does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Zed 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, Zed has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zed is a garbage counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed to counter Tahm Kench during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Zed versus Tahm Kench build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Tahm Kench than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 46.5% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Tahm Kench as Zed, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Zed vs Tahm Kench battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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