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Tahm Kench: Too easy to devour wrong target

KiddFly·7/10/2015, 5:54:52 AM·4 votes·2,524 views

I keep eating my allies and the occasional minion when I don't mean to. I feel like the targeting code is too liberal, but maybe I'm just overzealous about pressing W. My main request is for there to be a separate hotkey for eating enemies. Shift W only eats enemies, Alt W only eats allies. It would also be nice to have some HUD indication of who I ate. The main confusion occurs when:

  1. Target is a few pixels out of range
  2. Target dies while i'm pressing W
  3. I'm in a massive group fight.

5 Comments

Rogue of Time7/10/2015, 8:47:04 AM3 votes

I just made this same topic because I didn't see this one, lol. I've had this happen a LOT when I'm trying to execute an enemy and I end up eating an ally. I jungle as Tahm Kench and I've eaten my ally Leona (Support) a ton of times when we're both trying to keep an enemy Bruiser off of our ADC. I played three games earlier today and it probably happened four or five times... it needs to prioritize enemy champions with three stacks of Acquired Taste first and THEN allies. The chances of Tahm Kench trying to Devour an ally to save them from CC and an enemy champion running in with three stacks of acquired taste into Tahm Kench's melee range at the same time are pretty slim, but the chances of Tahm Kench trying to devour an enemy champion with three stacks of acquired taste and an ally running into Tahm Kench's melee range are pretty darn high.

Sorgklaan7/10/2015, 8:09:02 AM2 votes

Yeah, it is really sketchy. I've also noticed it not it not eating allies at all sometimes even when I spam smartcast it. :I

Also, the devour goes on cooldown sometimes when you eat a minion and it won't let you spit them out. :V

Simply Coosh27/10/2015, 10:01:12 AM1 votes

People also use this feature to troll games. You're fighting and almost have an enemy kill and GULP, Kahm Tench comes and swallows you and hauls you away....you don't get the kill. The only thing you get in an "LOL" in chat.

Very dumb.

Infiny Mage7/10/2015, 3:04:47 PM1 votes

Yeah I've only played a few games as TK, but I did notice that at times (mostly in team fights) I'd try to eat an ally that got caught out but if there happened to by any other ally by him. It often eat the wrong ally. -_' There were other cases where I was trying to eat a 3 stacked enemy and if there was a minion near him at the time. It sometimes ate the minion.