Can riot please Nerf Tahm Kench

ToyStoi·6/17/2019, 4:21:45 PM·4 votes·1,295 views

TL;DR: Tahm Kench has such short cool downs and such little mana cost there is no way to punish mistakes. He is being abused by Low and high elo players to get LP. And Riot still hasn't caught on to Tahm even tho he is frequently picked or banned in bro league.

I have been playing League of legends for about 2 years, And I have seen a lot come and go through the meta. But this, This is absolutely Absurd. Tahm Kench is just unfair. There is currently no counter play to him besides Teemo, And if that play is gonna play Tahm He most likely bans Teemo. For being a tank Tahm Kench does more damage then a he should. Playing Vs him isn't fair or fun. He just runs in on you and gets his three stacks either Q or W then autos more and kills you. No counter play whatsoever. His abilities are on to short of a cool down with such low mana costs, there is no punishing him if he misses a Q or a minion devour. On top of it all people are abusing him to climb free to ranks they didn't work for, or belong in therefore making matchmaking harder for the people in high elo who have to deal with a bad player when Tahm is ban making them lose LP. And the fact that Riot still hasn't caught on to this is ridiculous. I mean for being such a big company, and how frequent tahm shows up in Pro play. They should have caught on to it by now. I decided to hop into a practice tool to see whats up, At level 1 Tahm Kench Q does: 80(+0) damage. That's more then bruisers abilities. It has an 8 second cool down and is only 50 mana. In one minuet I was able to get 7 Q's out without going under half mana. His W Is even more broken. Although it has a high mana cost due to it not going up when you lvl it up. It makes it very spam able. At rank one Tahm W does 60 damage +9% bonus damage based on target health. At max rank it does 240 +13% of targets health. That is a lot of damage for building tank whilst being a support. And the most absurd thing is that he can be played ANY role. In top he can abuse the non mobile bruisers. In Jungle he can run or ult into lane for a game and slow the enemy into oblivion. In Adc He can auto and then CC to kill and due to his E he cant die to the support or Adc. In support he can push you off of farm due to his E healing 20% of the grey bar at rank one, and 40% at max rank. On top of it He has so much health it becomes impossible to kill him late game. He uses all his abilities runs out of mana, and despite having no mana he still manages to escape due to his E costing NO MANA and being on a 6 second cool down. He can use it 3 times in a fight without punishment. This is ridiculous and I hope riot sees this and does something about it

3 Comments

taleofsonata6/17/2019, 4:33:28 PM3 votes

Riot: yea sure we're going to Nerf Support Tahm.

Tahminatrix 6/17/2019, 4:55:27 PM1 votes

Problem with tahm kench is he was originally designed to be a scaling champion who would do everything he could to stall the game out (by ulting to stop splitpush and saving important teammates with w so they can help waveclear) , then riot power creeped his early-mid game and took the damage passive off of his r and put it onto his actual passive so he wouldn't have to put points into his R to get more and more damage.

Also if tahm kench is using his q at lvl 1, he is gonna worry about hp a lot more than mana, the damage is not worth self rooting yourself for a full second so the enemy can beat you up while you wait for 8 seconds to q again, infact tahm kench is increadibly weak at lvl 1 unless you manage to outplay yourself and let him q stun you...which requires you letting him auto attacking you for free.

And tahm kench is NOT a tank, hes a juggernaught/warden in that order. Everything in his kit is single target except for his w spit and he doesn't have any hard cc that he can use on demand.

You beat him by getting through laning phase and peeling him off your team / killing his team faster than he can kill yours, tahm kench excels at dueling but takes too long to kill his targets to deal with 5 champs focusing him after you murder his teammates.

Also there is no reason for anyone to complain about his W damage, even against a tank it tends to be worse than just continuing to auto attack and spam q.

The only time you should ever eat an enemy as tahm kench is for some sort of outplay (jax counterattack, or repositioning enemy away from their minions so you can land a q) or execute, (q them w them q them again after you spit them out.)

Tahm kench suffers a lot from having to stack up on his target multiple times.