Did tahm kench get nerfed to hard

shamation·3/8/2016, 2:39:04 PM·4 votes·821 views

I picked up Tahm mid december 2015 and really enjoyed playing him. Not gonna lie though, he was op as fuck. I think the first set of nerfs to his ult and his w in 6.2 we're good nerfs because they got rid of some of his ridiculous damage for someone who only stack tank items. The nerfs on 6.3 and 6.4 however, i think went a little to far. Tahm was sitting at about a 51% win rate before his initial nerfs and a huge ban rate of +80%. After the most recent nerfs hes sitting at about 45% win rate which is one of lowest in the game. I still can't play him very often because people still ban him 44% of the time even though play rate and win rate are down. When i do get into games with him it's very difficult to win lane now because of the Q (tongue lash) hit box changes and the stack decay is very fast now. Tahm's pre 6 was already bad before the nerfs and could be abused, but after the Q nerfs, it's significantly weaker. His level 6 power spike also took a big hit now that the passive damage is basically halved.

tl:dr i don't think he should've been nerfed that badly (still needed nerfs though) and the community should learn to play around him instead of making lots of posts about Tahm needing nerfs.

4 Comments

Ricky Spanish DC3/8/2016, 3:15:43 PM2 votes

I agree- i have 80k mastery with him but right now he feels like crap to play as, even though i still do because he is my best champion. I dont know what all the downvotes are for- he was a bit op, but therr are champs that are much, much worse than him. My solution:

-Bring q width back -Give w stacks like 1 nore second, or at least give them a visible timer so we can see how long they have left. -Change R passive to 3%,5%,7%, which is less than the original, but not as weak as now

  • Remove the unnecessary 1 second stall on his ult this patch, it already takes a ridiculous amount of time to use ult- way more than twisted fate.

Please Riot, you overnerfed him hard even though he used to be op.

shamation3/8/2016, 5:36:06 PM1 votes

Try playing Tahm top, jungle or even support before you down vote. You'll see he's not nearly as strong as he used to be and he's very much on the weaker side of things