Tahm kench has 280 base damage, 70% slow on a 4 second cooldown.

Dasdi96··59 votes·15,426 views

How the fuck is that even fair? Tahm kench auto wins every melee matchup just by spamming q on cooldown because of how overstat it is. Dodge it? Doesn't matter it's up again before you could get a 2nd cs. Try to fight him? He just auto you 3 times, eat you, and throw you far away and you taking % max hp damage. So if you are against this guy in top lane, you are 100% reliant on your team because you can't do SHIT. You have to hope your adc is decent enough to take him down when the game goes past 25-30 minutes. This is the 4th patch he is doing this and there are no changes on the pbe. Riot doesn't have a single top lane player on their balance, so they don't know how unfun it is to play melee top against tahm top. Yhis is even worse than playing against ranged champions, at least you can have them push and call your jungler for a gank, and snowball if you get a lead.

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EthreainAmbusher9 votes

bench the kench?

Velzard of Koz6 votes

chair the air

Radiant Seraph5 votes

buff the puff

jocomotion3 votes

Inhibit The Ribbit

Luther King Jr V1 votes

what's the origin of this meme?

Pyrosan4 votes

[{quoted}](name=Luther King Jr V,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Qi0eZPHJ,comment-id=00010001,timestamp=2019-06-16T10:55:09.475+0000)

what's the origin of this meme?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T28qpuCQcg

Woodakoodashooda7 votes

Vayne and Quinn perform well against him. Otherwise, consider going off meta with something that is comfortable to you.

AMADEUSdotEXE5 votes

"You forgot about it being 900 range 2 seconds at 40% cdr and a 1.5 second stun on proc." Azir (laughs in reflection)

vimaid4 votes

Try going off meta I might be biased butVi is god top especially against tahm. start E. harass him from behind minions. when lvl 2 get q and aa ee him he should either be forced to back or use a potion if he hadn't used one before lvl 3 same combo but this time you should kill him due to the w passive. does depend on runes though i will admit 2 rune trees can work against him resolve After shock shield bash bone plating and overgrowth Domination Sudden impact ravenous hunter offense Flex defense Some explanations Aftershock= Her q procs this not only magic resist and it will do damage Shield bash=her passive when you hit an enemy with an ability she procs a shield so shield passive she has is even stronger and it does more damage bone plating defense overgrowth not much else

secondary rune tree Press the attack triumph legend of alacrity or bloodline either is fine honestly all 3 is really good but i prefer last stand myself. Then same domination runes.

Zeromatsu4 votes

His Q also applies his passive dmg, so he actually deals more dmg.

AirKingNeo4 votes

Boards 3 months ago: Oh Tahm isn't an issue. Tahm's perfectly heathly and they need to stop nerfing him because he's broken in pro play.

Boards now: Oh god get rid of Tahm oh god oh fuck

invisiblecat11 votes

He's starting to increase in popularity, so people are starting to play against him more in the top lane

OneMustFall3 votes

Heimerdinger shits on Tahm pretty hard. Just pop your turrets down and go make a sandwich. Malzahar is also a pretty decent counter to Tahm.

Conventional top laners are gonna dumped on though in Tahm's current state.

Street Jimmy Jr1 votes

Very true

ExplodingFist662 votes

Its damage needs to be lowered all the way to 200 and the slow reduced to like 45%

Radiant Wukong2 votes

Rushing item 3065 on Darius is pretty effective against TahmKench just better hope Kench doesn't rush item 3076

Omega Bot1 votes

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Rushing item 3065 on Darius is pretty effective against TahmKench just better hope Kench doesn't rush item 3076

Bleed damage goes through anyway, thornmail won't bother darius a lot.

stone the blacks2 votes

what if you make the slow strength/duration scale with acquired taste stacks

ThaneBrood1 votes

I had a good camilee game against Kench. I just poked him non stop and he would run at me, but for champs without a sling how do escape his stupid passive. Spent the whole end of the game linked to adcs🙃

Eonslegacy1 votes

IT also stuns btw.

Street Jimmy Jr1 votes

It also insta procs terminal velocity so tahts a thing

HopeStartsWithU1 votes

Pyke with conq is probably the best matchup against him, ignoring his shield, pretty much more sustain after extended fights and can disengage with E instantly. Until they fix him either ban him or Pyke him

Akali is SO HOT1 votes

Not for long lel

ŠρìΚσ1 votes

your team : just farm dont fight him ( they dont know he can kidnape you frome your turret and throw you in his fountain ) some how he can poke you under turret and out range turret with his bullsht Q , and when yiu loose engh hp he just run on you

PaffWasTaken1 votes

Op : Points out how a utterly broken champion is unfair because of how much he has in his kit

Comments : bUT mY 20% wINrAtE fULl TaNK KogMaw bUIlD sHIts oN tAHm KenCH, lIKe, oNe tIMe ouT oF 20. LMAO eAT shIT ScrUB tAHM IS bWAlinCED, CAN't bENcH tHe KenCH r%%%%% lOl

Street Jimmy Jr1 votes

"LOOK AT ME I WIN ONE TIME WITH A QUIRKY BUIIILD IM SO COOOOOL YOURE JUST BADDDDD!!!"

Cloud2731 votes

Play Olaf top. LOL at him every time he tries to cc you.

YaraUwU1 votes

Yup tahm kench has a shit load of base damage.

Forge God Ornn1 votes

This is how you know pro teams aren't really pro.

Nobody's playing Hail of Blades Tahm Kench top lane.

Sunny12281 votes

Isn't tahm only good at 1 v 1 though because when I fight a 2 v 1 it gets hard

Perma CC1 votes

Tahm Kench really isnt broken tho. Your inability to adapt is whats fucking you. NOt every matchup is a " I MUST RUN AT U AND FIGHT U" matchup. some match ups you just farm and scale for late and do teamfights. Tahm Kench is a lane bully and is strongest during the laning phase 1v1 vs melee. He falls off after that. IF you are fighting him during laning phase you arent playing the matchup correctly. If Tahm is broken then so is Pantheon, Kennen, Vlad, Jayce... all these champs need to be nerfed for the same reason-- that reason being that the laning phase you cant do anything to them. He is only performing so well because people are mindlessly walking at him to fight him knowing they wont win in laning phase but doing it anyways and feeding him. Its basically a cheese strat... like what pink ward does with his boxes in top lane. He waits for people to completely disrespect him and die to him even tho, THEY SEE clips online they know he baits people into boxes but they keep repeating the same mistakes and feeding him for no reason. Just dont fight him during the laning phase, shaco invalidates laning phase fighting when played the way pink ward plays him. people will never learn tho.

NodirjonSattarov1 votes

it's a skillshot

Zeppelins circus1 votes

When you know a tank can have positive winrates against Heimer early game you know it is over the top bullocks

CountSpatula1 votes

Q hitbox is random af also

Pika Fox1 votes

"throw you far away" he can literally only take like 3 steps eating an enemy

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