Serious Question, Why hasn't Tahm been nerfed?

The Voids Call··13 votes·1,045 views

In all seriousness, he handed just about everything to him on a silver platter. Which he gladly inhales... He's tanky, Support, CC heavy, High damage... What doesn't he do???

Seriously he only real "counter" is absurdly high % damage, but insane % damage abilities aren't only strong against him, they are strong against every champion.

So is he scheduled for a nerf or is he just going to set the new bar for the blatant power creep in the game?

18 Comments

Brockinroll3 votes

Whats funny is not really any changes have been made to him that made him suddenly great, its just people realized how usefully he could be now. But he will probably get some form of nerf, the best thing to do is probably reduce the time an enemy is in his belly or decrease the slow by about 20%* depending on level

Shadow Gilgamesh3 votes

Probably because he's hovering at under 50% win rate in every rank/mmr/elo/whatever it's called these days, and looking at Championgg it looks like his sub-50% winrate is shared across all his positions in plat+ (though Jungle is real close to 50%).

Sure he's not very fun to play against, but there's a handful of champs I'd rather see nerfed/changed simply to make playing with/against them not shit before him, though Riot says they're keeping a close eye on him, so he'll probably get nerfed at the first sign of strength reflected in the numbers

Yosuke Apperu2 votes

I am giving you my upvote for it's all that I have to give friend.. sadly.. your thread will eventually be downvoted into the abyss before anyone from RIOT sees it. People don't want others to mess with their freelo and they'll make sure this thread never sees the light of day.

Player of Games1 votes

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I am giving you my upvote for it's all that I have to give friend.. sadly.. your thread will eventually be downvoted into the abyss before anyone from RIOT sees it. People don't want others to mess with their freelo and they'll make sure this thread never sees the light of day.

Riot has already stated that they have no current plans for Tahm, however they are keeping a very close eye on him for future changes. He most likely won't get changed until preseason or season 6.

Lugg2 votes

Riot is actually looking at him now. Nerfs should be coming in the not too distant future.

Eedat1 votes

Because he doesn't need nerfs. Try not to blow all your cooldowns on Tahm every fight and hes not that good. He's a gimmick with plenty of counterplay potential

RedCyclone1 votes

I'm sorry, but anyone who can 100% a champion alone with no damage items whatsoever deserves their kneecaps to get smashed, fucker pokes harder then full AP Sona bot That isn't even mentioning his retarded amounts of CC, innate double tankyness and stickyness

Eedat2 votes

but anyone who can 100% a champion alone with no damage items whatsoever deserves their kneecaps to get smashed

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Seenan1 votes

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K. DrMundo Nasus Amumu Volibear

Mumu and can't 100-0 reliably, nor can Nasus. Mundo too. Voli..Maybe he's viable.

The Voids Call1 votes

actually amumu is kind of the opposite, amumu will build almost no tankiness and then still be tanky as fuck... and i'm honestly not even sure where it comes from considering he only has a flat damage reduction on his E

CppL1 votes

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Because he doesn't need nerfs. Try not to blow all your cooldowns on Tahm every fight and hes not that good. He's a gimmick with plenty of counterplay potential

So whats the counterplay then? run away??

Kitten of Evil1 votes

Good luck with that. TahmKench Q-AA-Q-W-Q

Sintama1 votes

The counterplay is to ban him. Dive a carry? Eats and runs away at super speed. Kill a carry? He can 1v3 easily unless you have enough CC to keep him from using his shield; even then he'll take 2 of you with him. He's good at EVERYTHING excluding being an ADC. Everything else he's dominant.

Sintama1 votes

In the words of Blizzard Entertainment: "Working as intended." He's supposed to be ridiculously tanky with ridiculous damage and ridiculous CC. It's just how he's supposed to be.

Meep Man1 votes

Calm down and get ahold of yourself. Have you not seen the Red comments that have talked about Tahm recently? Hes under the microscope ok?

PIMPSMOOTH1 votes

If any champion needs the nerf bat it's Thresh

The Voids Call3 votes

I can agree to this 110%, i've said he needs to be nerfed for over a year now, because he does... he has been outclassing every other support in the game by a large margin. Though the fact that tahm is as powerful as he is, concerns me that they will just keep letting their power creep up.

TahmKench Expert1 votes

Wait, does this mean that everyone needs a nerf because they're good at things?

Btw, never seen a Tahm nerf post yet with actual reasons on why he's op other than "32% health is too much" or "so much cc". If someone said "I can't fight against him because he has no counter play for x, y, and z logical reasons" I'd listen, but this is all stuff that sprung up after worlds, so it's making me sick.

And no, % health damage is not perfect against him, he gets a shield that can double his health (effectively), so % health damage is roughly halved. Also, Sion is very comparable to Tahm in a lot of ways. He isn't getting screamed at for a nerf and every single ability he has does damage. In fact, only one ability doesn't have CC (and only two don't have hard CC), his passive isn't a power governor, and the one ability without cc is a shield, free infinite health, and percent and flat damage AOE spell rolled into one! I know champions can't be perfectly compared, but I feel as if they play very similarly. I switched over to Tahm a while ago because I like magic damage champs, his theme, and his play style. They can be used very interchangeably, minus Tahm's utility of course.

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