Tahm kench broken?
Buys 4 ruby crystal, 1 corrupting potion, and boots then BOOM you can 1v1 anyone early. No dmg at all but can fck anyone up at toplane. This is from my experience and I have trouble fighting against him. Any tips?
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Tahm Kench sucks. I have 750k XP playing him support and top.
The biggest thing with that fat catfish is he is going to want to be close to you. And his Q can enable him to close distance quickly if he can land it. Minions are going to be your help here. If there are minions between you and him, he can only flash or Q the minion then just run towards you with his big fat belly and tiny hat.
Any melee champ that isn't very bursty is going to have a very hard time against him. Also distance poke champs like Teemo and Quinn will still have a hard time due to his Q. They will come up to poke, then they get Q and Tahm will just run up to them and slobber all over them and eat them, drop ignite plus another Q if he times it right and then you die.
In my opinion, the most important thing you want to do is dodge his Q. If you do that, you have options to either engage or run away without being slowed. Remember also that he can shield himself. So do not over commit if he has not used it.
Ignite can negate some of his heal.
Even as a TK main I have a hard time laning against him. He just sucks. You cannot nerf him enough, it doesn't matter. We just ROFL kill everyone in lane. We the biggest lane bullies. Doesn't mean we win games now that our ult has been butchered, but we still just slobber all over everyone and then spit them into our minion wave and that's it.
Does my hat make me look fat?
If Darius isn't banned just pick him into Kench. Kayle will probably die to him early a couple of times but can still scale and carry the game. The same with Fiora.
Also once when he has used his shield, if you are still alive and it drops he will be very vulnerable because it just disappears. He loses his healing perk if he chooses to use his shield. So use some timing, back off until his shield drops then if you feel still like you are strong enough, jump on his ass.
Randuins might help you if you are top against him. A lot of Kench players will build attack speed to help with pushing and also getting stacks so they can farm and eat more quickly.
They will also be looking to build speed and health. So be aware of that.
If he is at least level 2 and he lands a Q on you, he is probably going to want to run towards you so he can eat you. If that happens, make it as costly as possible and stay behind your minions. When he eats you your minions will attack him and he will be slowed.
Also he cannot eat an allied player and flash anymore and his ult distance has been cut in half in favor of allowing him to spam Q more often and just be more scrappy.
This buffet exceeds repugnance.
If you do run Tryndamere try ulting earlier to get him to eat you sooner. Then when he spits you out you will still be alive and you have a shot at killing him. I know as a Kench player as soon as I hear that ult animation I eat him to negate its effects. Trynd players love using that ult right before they die so by muscle memory he's probably going to eat you as soon as you use it. I get stacks on him and keep the stacks by auto attacking until he ults. But if you are still alive when he spits you out, he is just a big fat catfish with all abilities on cooldown and he'll probably just try to run away.
His eat cool down is high enough you can go in for the kill before he can use again.
His Q animations is fast and hard to dodge. But if you can side-step and predict when he wants to cast it, you have a respectable opportunity to take him.
But honestly its probably best to just stay out of his way and focus on farming and scaling for the late game. Late game he is not as strong and you will probably be advantaged if you kept up in farm. Just last hit and try to control him best you can.
He's not "broken" because I still lose plenty of games playing him. You can kill him if you are patient and wait for your window, wait for him to step too far forward, miss his Q, accidently eat a minion instead of you, etc.
I see nothing splendiferous in this table's offerings.
Tips? sure 1.Don't fight him 2.Be more useful in teamfights and splitpush 3.Profit
You cant really do anything vs him except walk into the lane with the understanding that you've already lost. So play like you've already lost. Be reserved and CS safely.