In all my years of frusteration and enduring aids in the top lane, NOTHING compares to Tahm Kench.

Scorpio Szn·6/22/2019, 4:07:21 PM·60 votes·17,077 views

Like, forget Viktor top, Vayne top, Karma top, basically all the top laners that make you not wanna play the game at all have virtually nothing on Tahm Kench. It's at the point where I'm not even playing top lane anymore until they do something about him.

73 Comments

NoPaxt6/22/2019, 4:34:44 PM19 votes

You know between your runes, champ select, and itemization you can make him obsolete. You just have to be willing to try something new and not a cookie cutter mobafire build.

preternatural6/22/2019, 5:18:14 PM17 votes

eh, tahm top is not the worst top lane has seen, he is a problem but certainly anyone who has been a resident of top lane through the years knows there has been far worse things there before. for me, so long as there isn't a tank ekko phenom again i'm generally ok with it cause that ekko shit was actually unplayable when his %health dmg on his W passive was 5% instead of 3. and fiora isn't popular enough to truly be shown up as the balance disaster show that she is, iunno why rito keep on juicing her up with buffs here and there either. tahm currently is like vladimir's ugly cousin, twice removed, i don't want to see him but i've had worse visitors. also tryndaderp, because no one can forget a good tryndaderp.

FREE TÅYK6/22/2019, 4:25:17 PM16 votes

As a support, I'm just glad he's not in bot lane anymore!

Paulie6/22/2019, 4:35:39 PM11 votes

Fuck Tahm Kench. Absolute degenerate champion

FSRER6/22/2019, 4:51:31 PM4 votes

The only thing that comes close to Tahm Kench top right now is Olaf back in the days. He was Pick or Ban and if the enemy picked him, there was absolutely nothing you could do.

CleverCactus6/22/2019, 9:39:51 PM4 votes

Yeah he really counters bruisers like Irelia, Riven, and Jax, which everyone is playing right now.

Crescent Dusk6/22/2019, 6:48:40 PM4 votes

I'll take TK over Mordekaiser anyday.

TK is stupid easy to gank and camp top lane on.

With morde he just goes Teleport and even if you've camped him pre-6 he will still make it impossible for you to gank post-6 since top lane always outlevels the jungle and his ult allows him to kill the jungler 100% of the time he comes for a gank, and if not there's a high likelihood he shuts down his enemy top lane with it anyways.

I just came off a game where my Gnar was feeding TK like an idiot and it didn't matter because come mid to late game he did nothing in TF's and my Vi stunned the living crap out of him and he blew up in every team fight.

He's a useless toplaner that can't really make picks or threaten the backline at all, and his damage is all single target so he does no cleave damage whatsoever unlike most other top laners.

º chÿ º6/23/2019, 12:42:32 AM3 votes

We had a tahm on our team recently against a Yi jg. Yi ults and flys face first into our adc - Ult / Q ( Alpha Strike) and all. Tahm eats our adc mid Q and Yi stands there dumb founded as he was kicked out of his Q before it got a chance to proc. It was beautiful.

Lukáš Mrákošlap6/22/2019, 5:34:06 PM3 votes

I am at that point of playing top lane that when I do not know what champion imy enemy is going to pick, I safe-pick Tahm Kench. Also, conqueror is still a problem and there's no answer for that.

Dotty LB6/22/2019, 9:12:36 PM3 votes

if i have to go top i just ban him.

StpTlkinAnBndOvr6/23/2019, 1:48:33 AM2 votes

are none of u old enough to remember ekko release or juggernaut rework release?

LordGeovanni6/24/2019, 4:10:44 AM2 votes

Fuck that shit Viktor top was cancer and i still have to deal with Jayce Teemo Quinn top and Cassiopeia Vayne and most adcs and mages in general in other lanes who i still have to interact with but they get free excapes after i blow by mobility and cc to catch them.

Ηuawei6/23/2019, 8:02:30 PM1 votes

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Like, forget Viktor top, Vayne top, Karma top, basically all the top laners that make you not wanna play the game at all have virtually nothing on Tahm Kench. It's at the point where I'm not even playing top lane anymore until they do something about him.

For now you can ban him when you want to go top lane you know...

EthreainAmbusher6/23/2019, 8:04:00 PM1 votes

licks agressively

TahmKench

slurp

(tahm is so horrible to fight though, ik what you mean)

PopcornBunni6/23/2019, 8:08:00 PM1 votes

I made a thread about this point specifically already, but Tahm beats literally, literally, the entire cast toplane during laning phase. But since he doesn't have a kit of like, an actual champion, he doesn't convert it into objectives or game wins. Well he does, only against about half his opponents though. He just prevents top lane from playing league of legends for 20 minutes then does virtually nothing.

RamenGurl6/23/2019, 10:18:26 PM1 votes

best way to play against a tahm kench. is just do small trades. or play a character like jayce that can poke. a lot of what i see people doing is trying to all in him and falling to his shield. if you do small trades or pokes. then you can negate his shield

preternatural6/25/2019, 9:20:01 AM1 votes

yo you beat tahm kench by building mr and sustain. basic league right there

5kcheesesticks6/24/2019, 9:47:57 AM1 votes

He's so dumb lol. Lliterally walks up to you and kills you even after you outplayed him. His defenses need tweaking cause it's absurd.

SettDownShutUp6/24/2019, 1:40:20 PM1 votes

All I wanted to do was support. Riot had different ideas.

14daysuspensionk6/23/2019, 6:30:49 PM1 votes

Not even Riven or Vayne? I never play top and I have no idea how the fuck you're supposed to farm in top lane without being poked.