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Tahm Has Been Over-Nerfed And Needs Serious Help

Albuquerque·3/3/2016, 3:48:02 PM·3 votes·543 views

I knew this would happen. I never once thought that TahmKench Tahm Kench was overpowered or unhealthy, but the cries of people that, for some reason can't handle him, have sent him into the gutter, and it completely upsets me, as well as it being abhorrently unjustified.

Tahm Kench has literally the second lowest win rate out of all support champion, as well has an abysmal 41% win rate when played top. His recent nerfs have destroyed him and must be reverted.

What does Tahm Kench bring to his team besides damage? Nearly nothing. All he brings is some displacement with his Devour, and that's it.

"But it does a third of the enemy's health!" So? Every other champion in the game has an ability that does that much damage, and more. Lux can do that much damage in seconds. It's nothing special.

"But he's a support! He shouldn't be able to do damage!" Wrong. Tahm Kench is a Tank first, Support second. Never forget that. Doing some damage is part of what makes a Tank useful. Otherwise they get completely ignored. It's required to be a successful Tank. Look at Garen DrMundo Volibear Trundle Sion Shyvana, these champions all deal a decent amount of damage while building full tank, and they're much more useful because of it. It's healthy for the class for them to deal damage. If they didn't, no one would ever pay attention to them and they'd be rendered useless.

Just like TahmKench is now. Now that he's practically damage-less, he adds nothing to his team, and everyone ignores him. He's just a walking ball of health that just waddles around and waits to die. With those damage nerfs, he's effectively without an ultimate. Now it's just a medium-range teleport ability, and this is solo queue; no one can coordinate his ultimate effectively, rendering it a complete waste.

I love Tahm Kench. he's incredibly fun to play and one of my all-time favorite champions, but he desperately needs his damage back. It's the only thing he had, and now he has nothing. I'm horribly saddened to see him in such a state. Please Riot, you once said not too long ago that you like his damage (before you nerfed it) and that he need it, and it's true! Fall back to those principles, you were right all along! Without your help Riot, he is doomed to rot at the bottom of the bayous he calls home. Don't let that happen. Please save him.

2 Comments

Ricky Spanish DC3/3/2016, 4:00:35 PM2 votes

I agree completely- At his peak, his damage was good, but nothing compared to the truly annoying op champs like Fiora and Lux. Riot removed his utility by taking away the movespeed boost on his w, and crushing his laning by thining his now easily dodgeable q. His supporting and his solo landing are just awful now Riot. He is worse than release Tahm now- What was the purpose of giving him a 1 second wait on his ult? Seriously Wyd? Nobody was complaining that his already slow, low-range ult was too quick. Please Riot, don't just gut a perfectly good champ without any compensation( and allowing a ally to jump in 1 second late in the ult animation is no real compensation). He is now a pretty bad pick. Keep in mind this is coming from a Tahm main with 80k champion mastery. I still play him in ranked because he is my best champ. Please Riot, you destroyed all of his utility, now please fix it.

Penns3/3/2016, 4:12:22 PM1 votes

If you think about it, Tahm actually has a lot of weaknesses and a pretty healthy kit.

His ult is borderline useless as engage with the 10 and a half year delay, all damage he does is single target so he is basically trash in 5v5 fights, both of his hard CC spells are single target and situational, he has no real mobility, his damage scaling isnt that strong either (with 3700 hp, his rank 3 ult doesnt even give 100 bonus damage), his utility, damage and CC are all on 1 rather long cooldown spell, so if he uses it for the damage he has no utility and vice versa,...