Tahm Kench needs a buff

xX69Dabling69Xx·1/7/2020, 6:33:33 AM·4 votes·3,060 views

First off I'd like to try to understand why the river king isn't more viable in the jungle, his current state is very weak and makes him one of the worst supports to soloqueue with, in pro play he is still picked because if you have an organized team and people that actually know his abilities they will try to utilize them. But the only thing that still makes him viable is his W, it's basically a low cooldown qss which can save your teammates from quite a lot of the ultimates and abilities in the game.

He is supposed to be a harasser but in his current state it's almost never worth to play him especially in soloqueue because of his low mobility. I think that maybe the q stack should come back so he can maybe toplane but most of all become a viable jungler, the W needs serious change though, something that doesn't just make him into a support champion. I could see something like a push with his tongue or breath to be viable as a support ability, that way instead of making your allies immune to everything almost you can push them away with shields or the enemy further back, you could also aoe jungle camps if it would have the same range as Syndra's E. His W is his whole kit and that makes him more boring to play which is sad for a champion that has so much more to offer.

2 Comments

NY641/7/2020, 6:57:58 AM2 votes

I definitely agree, if it is this hard to balance him just because of his qss W, then that definitely needs to change. I have 3 ideas to try and fix this issue

  1. While an ally is in his stomach, X amount of damage Tahm takes also goes to the ally in his stomach.

  2. Give his W a unique champion cooldown similar to how Yasuo has a cooldown on for his E on each unit to prevent him from dashing onto the same target over and over again. In Tahm's case, it should have an extremely long cooldown of about 90 (qss's cooldown) to 120 (Zhonya's hourglass cooldown) seconds. This way he can keep the same cooldown for enemies but not have that cooldown be overbearing peel.

  3. Remove the ability to eat allies. I really don't want this to be taken away but if this is the only option to make him playable then so be it.

If one of these ideas can be implemented then he will have room to be buffed again without being op in pro play. Maybe they can give his Q the ability to apply stacks again and not consume the stacks. Seriously losing the ability to use Q to get a stack feels like the most devastating loss in the world.

Malix Farwin1/7/2020, 10:15:44 AM2 votes

He needs more than a buff, he needs a rework. The LCS destroyed him like it has so many champions before and after him.