I think Worlds has proven that Tahm Kench was overbuffed

Really, they just need to refocus on whether they want him to be uncatchable, unkillable, and able to absolutely shut down any engage or catch whatsoever...

Or whether they want him to be an unkillable unkitable damage monster.

His spread focus and the fact that he's getting picked in so many roles means that Rito needs to tighten up on his identity and focus him either on allies or enemies.

Can't bench the kench

Tahm isn't op, Yellowstar is op. There's a reason he's my favorite player.

He was strong on release, it's nuts that he's received nothing but buffs since then. Insane tankiness, great damage, ridiculous safety and utility.

Hardly. He's an ass teamfighter. The reason Tahm wasn't overwhelmed in teamfights in most games is that generally his team gets ahead which means that they can stand to lose out on a bit of damage now and again to keep somebody live long enough to regroup them.

The last game with Fnatic and EDG had the vast majority of early fights become scattered, meaning that Tahm could capitalize on what he does best - make picks. He's great as a duelist just initially because of his sheer amount of effective health, CC, and base damage allowing him to tank to his heart's content, but he suffers heavily from hard-engage comps because Tahm can only save one person at a time, and generally if he's locked down with that person inside, then that person's also about to go down with him - he'd be spitting them out into a death-trap.

Tahm's just relatively new to the scene while also being so underplayed upon release that more often than not the first thing said by someone after trying to fight Tahm is "What the fuck is that damage?" But here comes basically every game where I play against a Tahm - I go an AP mid, grab Rylai's, sit back and relax as I make him so atrociously kiteable that you'd think he'd need the Skarner treatment. The top rages, and I say, "It's fine. Just relax for a bit, take gromp, and just wait until later." And out of the 8 times I've seen him on the enemy team in ranked, I've come out the victor in all but one.

Honestly, if EDG had went CDR Veigar and just had him spam his wall into oblivion, Tahm would have been bordering on worthless, and so would have Riven. But EDG was already criticized for trying to quickly learn the Veigar siege comp, and they probably rushed the Veigar basic training as well, which boils down to wall as much as you can forever always in every fight. The amount of spacial control they'd have gained from Ionian boots alone would have been bullshit.

Point is, give Kench some time - he can be scary alone, but there's safety in numbers. Especially considering he has literally no AoE besides spitting minions at people.

how was he buffed?

I kinda have stopped playing since riot is losing their mind with over buffing champs like Garen and Darius.

Except none of what he was buffed in is why is being played.

Sadly this is what happens with pretty much every champion.

• They're released. No one knows how to build/play the new champ yet so they wind up with low play rates for a bit and people don't take advantage of strengths to see how good they are.
• Riot takes the time to buff them because they're not seeing play and win rates are low, and they want to ensure exposure (/sales) for their new champ.
• The community lags behind the strength so by the time they realize the champ is good they're already fully OP from multiple buffs.
• Riot nerfs to bring them back into line.

Every champion in recent history has followed this pattern, unless they're released in an already OP state. Even Kalista received buffs the first time she was changed after release. I expect Kindred will be the same way. The only thing you can hope is that they're not nerfed to the point they're gutted once the playerbase catches up.

Worlds has prove that EU >>>> NA

tahm was actually barely buffed at all, the passive damage was only an extra one percent at level 11 and 2 at level 16, these changes have very little impact on support tahm as he doesnt get as much health. the base damage for his q was increased by 10 at rank 2 20 at rank 3 30 at rank 4 and 40 at rank 5, which is a very small buff that doesn't make a huge difference, the cd on his ultimate, while it was a substantial buff, i think its in a much better place now then it was before. and the range he spits out enemies with devour really doesn't do that much.

the things that make tahm so strong are the things they never touched, his e and devouring allies. his e give him a ton of natural tankyness, and basically says "i take 20% less damage from trades in lane." and his devour is like a thresh lantern that gets people out of trouble, but it doesn't matter if they are cc'ed. his devour is to powerful an ability right now, you cant really punish him for a bad use of his devour by diving one of their carries, as it has a 10 second base cd at rank 5 (and 14 at rank 1)

TL;DR nerf the cooldown on devour its got way to much power for a 10 second cooldown ability

Why isn't ever nerfed for long?