Zoe vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Zoe
based on 1,107 Zoe vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Tahm Kench
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Zoe in LoL
The stats shown here show several important Zoe against Tahm Kench counter stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench..
Zoe typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Zoe or Tahm Kench?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when trying to fight Tahm Kench, with a 45.7% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a poor counter to Tahm Kench.
While Zoe does have a much lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Zoe into Tahm Kench.
Additionally, Zoe also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Zoe is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zoe against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zoe 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Zoe versus Tahm Kench build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zoe had an average win rate of 45.7% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Tahm Kench as Zoe, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zoe vs Tahm Kench matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.7% winrate overall.
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