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Tahm Kench

Krupaz·4/27/2019, 6:06:30 AM·7 votes·2,934 views

I cannot fathom what is happening to Kench. I get the motivation, that makes sense. The execution is baffling. Unless they want to make him wholly unviable as a support on purpose, there's no reason for this. I get having a slow on w for ally consumption, but making it the same slow as when you consume enemies is impossibly bad. Now, consuming an ally ensures that you die and your ally probably just dies anyways with you. There's now no incentive (at least in lane) to use your w on an ally. Using it on an enemy is better in every single way. It reduces the mana cost, there's the same slow, it does damage and you and your ally don't die. If these changes go through as they are, support Kench dies. Maybe top Kench can exist in some form but the champ is pretty much gone after this. It's such a shame, he's by far my favorite support to play. I don't play him the most but I have the most fun when playing him. I'm sad to watch him die. I can't even eat him to save him, either.

2 Comments

SonicPaladin4/27/2019, 10:56:55 AM3 votes

You and me both, but riot is pretty stubborn when it comes to Tahm. VERY stubborn.

Tahminatrix 4/27/2019, 6:41:08 PM1 votes

The goal is to stop him from using his W at all, the self ground and 95% slow on allies will make it useless outside of countering abilities like malz ult...

And the offensive W will universally do less damage than it already does (flat damage buff isn't even enough to hurt squishies nearly as much as the % nerf late game)

Infact his offensive W is already bad enough to the point where I have to consider even eating my target and removing all the stacks I have on them.

What riot wants is for tahm to just run around with his maxed q being spammed nonstop with 45% cdr and a 4 second cd (putting it down to 2.2 seconds)

1.5 second stun with a 2.2 second cd....

2.2-1.5 = 0.7

0.7 < 1/2 of 1.5...

What does this math mean?

It means if he gets 3 stacks on someone who doesn't have tenacity he can spam stun them to the point of only being able to play the game less than 50% of the time...

This is what riot wants tahm kench to be...this is what he will be balanced around....this is what people are going to complain about and call for nerfs to him despite that being his only niche...to spam stun his target to oblivion and back.