Tahm Kench should not have gotten this harsh of a nerf for 9.14

NY64··7 votes·2,214 views

I know I'm gonna get downvoted because everyone hates him and all that but screw it I'm gonna speak my opinion anyway.

When patch 9.9 came out it was a great patch because it made two unplayable champions playable again (Tahm and Aatrox). Yes I know many people will complain that it brought more cancerous champions to top lane but I think whoever made those changes did a good job.

When you make a bunch of changes like those to Aatrox and Tahm you can expect them to be either way too op or too weak. Whenever a champion gets reworked or is released into the public for the first time they are always either too strong or weak and that’s because it’s hard to get a champion made correctly first try. There’s not a good way to know how the champion will be until you see how players interact with each other regarding those changes.

So yes they both became op which is not a surprise but that doesn't mean the balance team should just immediately give up and just gut Tahm again. It makes no sense, why are they putting effort into Aatrox to get him into a spot he deserves but Tahm can't get the same love? If you are gonna make a bunch of changes to someone like with Tahm and Aatrox, you might have to go through trial and error to fix the problematic parts of the champion.

All they needed to do was nerf his passive damage and make it scale again like it used to and increase Q cooldown. Heck they could have even given his Q a unique champion cooldown like Yasuo's E or Rek Sai's W. Something like: If champion has been stunned by Tahm's Q, then they can't be stunned again for X seconds.

But nope rather than trying to help some gutted champions get back in a good spot you just instantly give up after only 2 attempts of patching him.

10 Comments

Woodakoodashooda3 votes

Everything done to Tahm because "competitive coordinated play" needs to be reverted. That's it. He's been stripped of his identity as a supporting tank and made into toxicity incarnate.

Rather than return him to his previously acceptable state, he gets the bench.

Why even have over 130 champions if Riot's just going to turn half the roster into troll picks like this?

SyncFail1 votes

Kench gets the bench summoner 11

lukaslopez153 votes

Tahm WR at 9.9: 49 % UNPLAYABLE

Irelia WR at 9.9: 45 % PLS NERF SO OP SO MUCH MOBILITY

NY642 votes

I’m talking about before 9.9 he was unplayable. 9.9 made him playable.

General Ramses3 votes

Hi i am a Tahm Kench player. Tahm Kench is unplayable after this nerf basically everything has been set to useless. Q dont apply lick + damage nerfed, W slow 95% with any champion so he is not even a good support + no lick applied with minion spit. E maxxed only give 65% and degenerate fast. Hard to shield yourself if half of shield is gone because of shield degeneration is fast.

Some other guy in a thread called his ulti useless which its not or at least now you will have to carry someone with you for it to matter. I would call that 50% nerf on the ulti because depending if i was alone or not i would use it to zone people away from carry or catch escapists.

This nerf is way too hard on Tahm Kench. All his tools has been stripped from him. All that was fun about him is gone.

Kelg2 votes

Tahm may as well not even be a champ now. Riot way over did it with both Tahm and Morde's nerfs. Both of these champs will sit below 50%.

Tha Dumpster2 votes

Morde needed those nerfs, he had a 55% win rate on release and he is still pretty strong.

Kelg1 votes

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Morde needed those nerfs, he had a 55% win rate on release and he is still pretty strong.

he has a 53%, and is being nerfed super hard on pbe. He will sit under 50% after, watch.

TheBrothersGrymm1 votes

TK was fun

Darkdemon6531 votes

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But nope rather than trying to help some gutted champions get back in a good spot you just instantly give up after only 2 attempts of patching him.

2 attempts

Surely you jest.

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