Kench needs a downside to eating allies

Rewt··2 votes·297 views

When Kench Eats an Ally it needs to have a flat 20s cooldown unaffected by CDR.

Kench can literally negate any champ in the game by just eating their target. Its so obnoxious.

And also. Riot needs to stop creating supports with these kinds of abilities.

Janna Shield and Tahm Kench W are some of the most anti - fun things in the game. Id rater play Preseason 7 Instakill leathality meta for the rest of time than play against one of these champs again.

7 Comments

Jamaree4 votes

You mean besides negating all their damage, utility and cc from the game during that time?

Bottles The Pimp3 votes

He can't attack or cast spells. He also makes it so they can't attack or cast spells. So if Tahm eats the AD at the wrong time it could be a gger.

Silly Neeko2 votes

There is a down side. He has to be right up there with the ADC to do it. If you yank the kench you yank the player he ate too. Janna is squishy. If you do not have the damage to deal with her shield then you should not have engaged the fight in the first place.

Supports are supposed to annoy the enemy adc. That is kinda their job.

datfatguy2 votes

Are we seriously going to complain about Tahm Kench? Give him some love.

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SwiftKitten881 votes

i ban TahmKench every game i support.

his ally eat seriously needs to be looked at.

there is literally NOTHING you can do.. you cant kill focus tahm becuase he is tanky AND has a crazy strong sheild, and you cant kill the adc becuase you cant burst therm down b4 they eat her.. and dont give me bullkshit about how "he has to be near his adc.. if he positions properly he is ALWAYS near his adc.

This Is Your Dad1 votes

I feel like the reason kench should stay this way is because it only really works well early game. In a teamfight sure he can eat an ally, but that means he cant do anything else and your ally isn't doing damage in the fight. In lane he's a beast, falls off later. Hell a braum e can block everything too.

MOIST Marlet1 votes

I can agree with the point that eating the adc at the wrong time can be fatal, but I feel like the point still upholds that Tahm needs more of a drawback. It's not that hard to stick close to the adc in a teamfight, and W when they're in danger of being cc'd/combo'd. Especially when cc skills can be so valuable in teamfights.

Personally though, I can't really think of any good method to balance that issue without gutting it in general. Perhaps when Tahm spits his teammate out, they get a small debuff (covered by saliva maybe?) that applies a slight decaying slow to the spit out target for 2 sec, so that Tahm also has to think about where he's going to spit them out. Right now it's pretty much a free Fizz E for the adc, so long as the Tahm player knows what he's doing it's a tier 1 get-out-of-jail-free card, and can also be spit out across walls through either's decision. That or maybe Tahm doesn't get to choose where to spit out the eaten target, so it's up to the ADC's skill/interaction.

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