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Please Please Please bring back Tahm stacks on ability

NaijaTerror·7/20/2019, 5:43:25 AM·5 votes·1,894 views

Please Please Please for the love of god bring back Tahm stacks on ability (no food). I've been a tahm main for many seasons (on my main I had over a million mastery on him) I fucking love this champ as a brother and every buff/nerf ive sucked it up and dealt with the changes even though there were some that really forced me to change the way I had to play with him but I always loved to rise to the challenge to show my homie Tahm could shine. Ive been through both Tahm is OP/Broke phases and Tahm isnt meta/that good and have despite it all always managed to make him shine because despite what people think playing a great Tahm does take skill. There are many abillities and changes I hated when it came to Tahm but removing the ability for his abilities to add to his stack minus Devour is GOING TOO FAR. Utlilizing and knowing when to alternate between aa and abilites with tahm was a key component of being exceptional good with Tahm. This method allowed for such creativity and diversity and simple options when fight an opponent and deciding which approach is best and this approach changes depending on the champ. Some champs you can auto attack away some champs you need precision execution of your abilities (Q in particular) to stack them let alone stand a chance of fighting them. Removing his No Foods ability to allow abilities to apply An Acquired Taste is a total castrating of my favorite champ. Not only does this make 1v1s exceptionally more gruesome especially agaisnt champs that either outrange me, blind me, outspeed/manuever me where being able to stack and stun/eat was my only saving grace especially against fed champs but now I have completely no means of reasonable survival/ counter play in 1v 2,3 and ups. You used to be able to juggle where you put your an acquired tast stack, aa this champ here, q that champ there finish ur stat ur stat, make w then aa and stun other enemy champ spit champ you have at different champ get new stack on them, etc so many play potentials but now hes been absolutely stripped of that. I get the need to make him "balanced" as ppl especially recently had been complaining alot about him but removal of his abilities stacking is a complete pendulum swing. As a tahm main I think most champs are reasonably able to fight against him (tahm mainly sucks for slow melee fighters) if you properly evade his skill shots and take necessary measures to avoid/counter him stacking or eating you. I respected ppl who were able to counter my moves and was impressed with myself when I was able to perfectly execute the correct combos and decisions necessary to win/survive a fight or get my allies out of a fight or assist in it. People complain about his chain stacking q but heres the thing youre not supposed to make it easy on him, you juke, you bait him to allies, you counter, its annoying but its playable against. For a tahm main like me alot of times the only thing that can keep me in the game/fight is fighting and playing and predicting hard when and how to land my stacks and stun and whens smartest to Devour because if I dont execute everything perfectly Im fucked. The key to beating tahm was always simply kiting him and before that was hard enough in certain matchups against certain champs and/or players now itll be nigh impossible to do anything as tahm against higher calibre players/champs (champs meaning have good kites that frustrate me as tahm) or in ambush/outnumbered situations. Not to mention I still want to be able to save my teammates and to do that before you were already sacrificing a cooldown as well as stack.

Anyway I really hope people agree with me even those that "hate" tahm its just to drastic a change to Tahm without it being a rework and has ruined the quality and utility of this awesome champ. I really am not writing this to be bitter as Ive mentioned before Ive gone thru countless Tahm updates and took it in stride but this one I really cant stay quiet about. I feel like a major component of my favorite champs design and gameplay has been utterly destroyed.

3 Comments

Xavanic7/20/2019, 6:23:50 AM2 votes

this is how riot operates now, they overnerf champs so they only function in 1 role

Livin like Riven7/21/2019, 2:05:59 AM2 votes

I feel your love for Tahm, man. I never played him much because he requires a bit of coordination with the W to eat allies and not have them spit themselves out, but there was this one game against a Veigar who was really fed, and my ADC who played really well with me bot lane wasn't having much fun getting insta deleted by Veigar, so I said "don't worry, just run at him. i will mikael's his stun and eat you if he ults, it won't do damage. you've got this." and we did it, we fucking actually took him down three times back to back off his respawn timer and won the game. Most other supports can't stop a Veigar ult short of CC locking him until death, but the rest of our team was lacking in damage, so it was up to us, and we had the tools to make it happen.

I never played him too much because I like having a bit of mobility on my engages, like Leona, Alistar, Braum, Thresh and THE NAUTY DAWG HIMSELF, but yeah, they've gone so far from where he started that he feels so strange to try to play nowadays.

In your opinion, is he worth trying bot still? I've been looking for a new support to try to play some, and I kind of like Pyke, but his ability to keep an ally safe is really awful. I also really like the idea of being able to make some heads up plays with his ult roaming to other lanes with JG and/or ADC in tow, but I'm not so sure with all the recent changes if it's troll to pick Tahm bot or not.