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It's about time Tahm Kench receives this more than fair nerf

Namazu Ebisu··3 votes·1,105 views

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I watched this video found on reddit recently about Tahm and i think it's really time to agree about something that's really broken : the passive As you can see on the first minute, the opponent gets swallowed for a huge duration...then gets huge damage from that same spell THEN gets stunned twice in a row with the Q spell.

The CC the champion has is already astonishing but the problem is the damage this champion does while having this CC. It's absurd, broken, fun breaking. The nerf Tahm needs more than anything is to absorb the passive once you swallow your target OR stun him.

This way Tahm players will need to think twice if they want to grab their opponents or stun them, but not BOTH. Imagine if Braum could stun you with his Q every single time for the duration of his passive debuff after you've been stunned, ridiculous right ?

Once again, when your target reaches 3 stacks it should immediatly dissapear/consume whenever you Q spell or W spell the marked target.

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Kaioko1 votes

Except Tahm's whole combo revolves around landing his stun as the target is running away so he can follow it up and eat them spitting them back out into the team. If you remove that then he needs the mobility which he's not going to get.

The BS was the passive on his ult which gave him far too much trading power while building plain health and that's been nerfed.

Namazu Ebisu1 votes

He already has a crazy mobility if you ask me, his MS is far greater than most champs somehow. The W is one of the most retarded cc in the game since it's on Skarner's ult level and can change a teamfight in a second. He doesn't need the bonus 2/3 stuns with that. He's a support, not a toplaner or something, you gotta get punished if you ever let him get close to you but he's not the one who's need to chase people down imo.

Kaioko1 votes

Idk if you've played skarner but skarner doesn't have his MS reduced when dragging a champion and you're also able to hit the champion that's been CCed. That's not the case with Tahm.

Also I quite like the versatility of being able to play tahm as a top laner or jungler. The ultimate passive was a bit too strong for that but it's since been nerfed.

RISE Shlack1231 votes

The biggest BS part of Tahm's kit, however, is his passive stacks. They aren't consumed on a Q stun like they are with Braum's passive. So you can stun a target everytime your Q comes off of cooldown. That's plain ridiculous. You can permastun if you have good enough CDR and your opponent doesn't have great mobility.

The passive damage on Tahm's ult simply amplified the issue with passive stacks not dropping when you stun. It closes a ton of counterplay when facing Tahm. Hence Tahm still being nearly a permaban, especially at higher levels of play.

Kaioko1 votes

But Braum allows his ADC to increase the stack if he manages to hit the opponent once. If tahm is somehow permastunning you well first he can't be secondly you'd still have to be hit by his melee auto attacks 3 times.

RISE Shlack1231 votes

Tahm's Q applies stacks of his passive, as does hitting an enemy with a minion or monster that is spit with W. He can apply stacks from a long range.

LatetotheRace1 votes

The problem with Tahm Kench is that Riot still wants him to be a top laner, so they can't address his main problem. E.G. the damage on devour to champions.

RISE Shlack1232 votes

Well, they have Tahm's primary role set to Support.

Veraska1 votes

Passive damage is going from 4/6/8% to 2/4/6% he's losing a third of his damage at all ranks

xl Kirito lx1 votes

He's a top laner. Maybe a jungler. Not a support. He has nothing unique to his kit that allows him to support besides the devour mechanic. At that point, Braum and Thresh fulfill the same role, but better.

Honestly, the fact that he's a super tank that is nearly unkillable while having insane damage... that's not unique anymore. Darius has insane damage, respectable heal. Garen has the true damage nuke onto someone. Illaoi has incredible teamfight presence. Mundo. Is kench OP? Yeah. Is he OP in this meta? No.

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