Rework Tahm Kench - a few suggestions

RookPusher··1 votes·294 views

in a few ways that might make him less garbage.

  1. Either his Q or his W need to go through minions. I think logically it makes sense for his W to do this since it requires set-up time, but I'm not married to either. I just think it's dumb to have two pokes that mainly do the same thing e.g. poke with minion block.

  2. Swallowing enemies has always seemed like more of a gimmick than a useful tool. And the set-up for it can be laborious. I'd (personally) prefer if his W offered the same functionality as it currently does, we remove his ability to swallow enemies, and instead offer this as the alternative:

Tahm can swallow enemy minions and either fire them (through minions) at enemy champions, or hold the enemy minion in for 10 seconds, which will heal him for X% (+AP%). While he holds a minion, Tahm cannot attack or use other abilities.

  1. This would really mean some level of rework for his passive. I personally think after his connects a third time, it should increase all damage taken by that champ. Call it Digestive Juices or something like that.

3 Comments

The Last Ballad1 votes

Tahm isn't weak, its just that the people he is strong against top lane and bot lane are not meta right now, and are rarely played.

He is good against Juggernauts, but weaker against tanks(about equal) and fails against carry top laners. Juggernauts are not being played that much, so his matchups are either skill(for most tanks) or against him.

In the support role he is good against the engage or burst lanes(Thresh Blitzcrank Zyra Morgana etc) and weak against enchanters(Soraka Janna Sona etc). Enchanters are being played constantly, so Tahm is at a weak point.

When the likes of Blitzcrank Morgana Thresh are being played, Tahm will be back in style.

And I disagree wholly about the eating enemies thing. Botlane(i play support, so thats where I play him) it is good in all ins to go after the adc and eat them, while your adc goes after the support. Later in the game it can be used as a soft counter to invincibility abilities(Kayle Kindred Tryndamere) to take a large chunk out of their invulnerable state, and pretty much prevent them from being able to kill someone on your team while they are unable to die.

exotic chosloth1 votes

I don't get it. there are a few discussions about how tahm is incredibly under powered and needs a rework. Removing his w devour on enemy champs??? that destroys his ability in the top lane as well as your trade mark move. letting his q and w go through minions just lowers tahm's skill cap which is something that should be relatively high for a "newer" support. I don't see where you are coming from when you say he is under powered. Have you played him top?

that shit is fun.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

what am i even reading? you shouldn't ever try to attempt to give opinions of things to rework/change on a champion if you have this little knowledge of the champion in question.

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