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How is Tahm Kench NOT broken?

Colgate Minuette··1 votes·740 views

I play support. a lot. in fact in my match history right now ranked and normals combined I have 12 games played as support out of 20 and 3 more of those games were ADC so I spend a LOT of time in bot lane and I mean a LOT.

I have champion mastery on Soraka with 41,300 points and climbing and champion mastery on Leona with 103,000 points. I also have it on Lux, I'm nearing mastery on Thresh Xerath and Lulu. As well as Bard, Braum, Janna, Zyra, Annie. You get the idea.

And in my experience. Bot lane cannot be won against Tahm Kench. (unless they totally suck at the champ)

On my first game as Tahm I discovered if I held someone in my mouth for as long as possible I would do 2000 AP damage. 2000!!!!!! What kinda bullshit is this? I built full tank ALL TANK EVEN RUNES AND MASTERIES and did 2000 damage? I was able to 1v1 ANYONE on the enemy team (granted they were behind by maybe 1-2 items each) but come on! 2000 damage on an all tank support champion?

I've seen this guy do 300~ish damage at like level 4 with his tongue lash (Q)

so please, someone explain to me how this champion is -not- broken. item 3070

3 Comments

Mr Malrin1 votes

Devour a target for 4/4.5/5/5.5/6s (half that for enemy champions.) Enemies are dealt 20/23/26/29/32% (+[2% Ability Power]%) of their maximum health as magic damage (maximum of 400/450/500/550/600 against neutral monsters).

32% of enemy max health plus a whopping 2% of Tahm's current AP. it is completely impossible to ever get 2k damage on the enemy you swallowed. lets say you have 500AP and enemy has 5k health total. That makes the damage before any MR is at a maximum of 1600(32% their max health)+10(2% of 500)=1610 total damage before any mitigation.

Sometimes chaining other abilities into a devour can skew the damage dealt so maybe this is what you seen that gave you the thought that you did that much to them.

Colgate Minuette1 votes

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Devour a target for 4/4.5/5/5.5/6s (half that for enemy champions.) Enemies are dealt 20/23/26/29/32% (+[2% Ability Power]%) of their maximum health as magic damage (maximum of 400/450/500/550/600 against neutral monsters).

32% of enemy max health plus a whopping 2% of Tahm's current AP. it is completely impossible to ever get 2k damage on the enemy you swallowed. lets say you have 500AP and enemy has 5k health total. That makes the damage before any MR is at a maximum of 1600(32% their max health)+10(2% of 500)=1610 total damage before any mitigation.

Sometimes chaining other abilities into a devour can skew the damage dealt so maybe this is what you seen that gave you the thought that you did that much to them.

I saw the numbers, I have the damage numbers that pop up and it came up as "2001" AP damage it said. And when they died, and I started talking in chat about how stupid it was they agreed. So the death recap showed him the same thing. but perhaps the rest of that number came from masteries or something, idk. but it told me 2000+ damage.

Blitzedlegend1 votes

salty? also, it doesnt matter how long he holds in the target, take it from a toxic player who plays tahm yorick and teemo kind and fellow summoner

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