Its already impossible not to intentionally feed into him in the top lane. He is entirely unbeatable, and u want buffs? Not even a Fiora, Jax, or Aatrox can do anything to him, and u want buffs?
why? Because he underperforms bot lane?
Hotarµ4 votesHe is entirely unbeatable
He was designed as a support and heavily under performs as a support, having one of the lowest winrates in the game for the role.
PhearBunny1 votesHe was designed as a support and heavily under performs as a support, having one of the lowest winrates in the game for the role.
Cool, nerf his top lane before you buff his bot lane than.
Hotarµ3 votesIn Silver+, he's got a 49% winrate with a 0.8% playrate.
In Gold+, he's got a 49.7% winrate with a 0.7% playrate.
In Platinum+, he's got a 51.7% winrate with a measly 0.6% playrate.
Tahm Kench top pretty much has the Aurelion Sol effect. Only dedicated mains are playing him and holding his winrate up.
Considering he's one of the least popular champions in the game, I don't think he needs nerfs. If he was as good as you say he'd be much more popular.
Alzon4 votesTop lane Kench has to end the game before 20 15 minutes or he’s not a champion, just a walking Zhonya’s.
woodvsmurph2 votesI don't know if he needs a buff or not... but I will say when they have given him buffs in past it often ends up doing very little to help him bot lane and instead just makes him more stupidly strong in top lane. Like buffing his %hp damage on his aa's or his devour damage. Hey, the champ's supposed to protect adc's. So why not improve his ability to do that instead of... buffing his ability to kill champs? IDK... just seems logical to me if he DOES need a buff in support role.[zombie-brand-clap]
Profirix1 votesMy suggestion is give him stupidly-high sustain so he can survive poke lanes. The nerfs to his grey health conversion/shield HP was just stupid. He needs to be tanky. He doesn't need damage. He needs to be a tanky-CC bot who can save his allies from time to time.
woodvsmurph1 votesYes. That's exactly the mentality they SHOULD be taking with him and the exact opposite of what they've been taking with most champs including tahm for quite a while now.
Ralanr1 votesI haven’t really been seeing people asking for Tahm buffs. I haven’t really heard of any tanks outside of Sion doing well in top.
With how people have been asking for tank help you’d think people would bring up Tahm as a counter argument.
Profirix1 votesProbably because most Tahm Kench players, like myself, have basically given up. We recognize that Riot created a champion that is either extremely overpowered at high levels of play (i.e. high team coordination) or balanced based on pro play and thus does very poorly everywhere else. Riot realized that they can't allow him to be viable if they hope to see "#biglcsplays" because his role is inherently antithesis to their philosophy. Make no mistake, anyone who plays the champion in solo queue is handicapping their team. They can be the best Tahm Kench in the world but the champion just doesn't bring enough utility to the table to influence the game when the teams are evenly matched (i.e. teamfights).
I have stopped playing him in ranked because if I want to climb, I have to use someone else.