Tahm is such a tank-of-all-trades

Nebuul··6 votes·593 views

Riot, I want to congratulate you on this champion. He is seriously fun to play. What I like the most is that he can perform well in every role except for adc.

Top lane tank? Sure, he's a huge lane bully and is basically impossible to kill in teamfights. Plus he can either save a teammate or remove a threat from the fight.

Mid mage? Sure. He has to be a little careful about pushing too hard since he is gank-vulnerable without any good escapes, but you build Rod, Rylais, Liandries, and tanky stuff, and you will melt those squishy mid-laners like oh-so-delicious butter.

Support? Obviously he's great. He is melee, but has 200 attack range. That lets him capitalize on 8 gold support strikes vs enemy champs, plus he gets easy executes with the face of the mountain items. Not only that, but he gets damage for his sightstone (the ruby upgrade gives him +20 additional damage on everything he does!).

Tank? He's a class-A tank jungler. Max R > W > E > Q. You can build devourer or cinderhulk, depending on if you want to soak or deal more damage, but let it be known that a tahm jungle with sated devourer is truly terrifying, and the attack speed while he's building it up makes him an incredible duelist. Oh yeah, and he's basically immune to jungle ganks from the enemy jungler because tahm is a ridiculous duelist. If you turn the enemy red, and they are alone, they are dead. That is all there is to it. You can spit jungle mobs at them with W, you can chain-stun them with Q.

Anyhow, I love this champion. I've been playing him a bunch. My record isn't too great at the moment, but I'm getting better with him. My goal is to hit platinum next season playing as much TK as possible.

TahmKench "Delicious!"

Thanks, Riot!

(on a side note, the champions I've found give tahm the most trouble are vayne and olaf. Vayne 'cause vayne. Olaf 'cause his ult counters Tahm's kit completely. Tahm loves to fight against Tryndamere the most, 'cause when he ults, you wait a sec then devour him. He will become mortal in your belly, then die when you spit him out)

3 Comments

A Miss Fortune3 votes

I don't like how Tahm is rewarded for being tanky by having free damage. I think giving his Ultimate a passive is fair since it isn't the best ultimate ever and It's just not able to be used that frequently. Though what they gave him is innapropriate.

I was playing Kassadin earlier and even going 23-4 at the end of the game with my passive, Tahm's Devourer did 477 damage to me alone I believe. He had absolutely no damage items and I think even his runes and masteries were full Defense/Utility. Now I'm not saying Kassadin's passive is the best, but it also reduces 15% incoming Magic Damage no matter what, and I feel kind of cheated when the enemy Tahm Kench full Tank Support can blow me up with nothing but his Tongue Lash and Devour. Don't say It's because I "didn't build defensive items" either. I had two items that have big defensive stats and also Kassadin's passive allows him to not have to build as defensively as most other mid laners.

I think they should simply give his Ultimate a new passive, it definitely increases his damage which isn't necessary considering he has pretty good base damage and AP ratios for such a tanky champion, and I think he also has % health damage.

D1rtFarmer2 votes

tahm is super fun.

SlaktarTasken1 votes

I find Tahm epicly frustrating to play against when I play ADC, those clutch nom-nom cheese saves (devour) generally makes me want to puch somebody in the face. :,( More so than Thresh lanterns, because u can actually block lantern by positioning over it or you can actually kill the champ before they manage to use it.

Devour however... is instant, so unless the champ was low and ignited, or some other kind of DOT before going in, they always survive. It's the cheesiest denial ever.

I have no idea how to get around it, and good Tahm will abuse that sh*t. So I utterly hate this champ.

Thank God he is just about as popular in other roles as he is a support or I'd bann him every game.

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