Tahm Kench Top Lane

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Okay, I hate being the type to complain through a system like this, but Tahm Kench top lane is completely out of line. His kit doesn't belong in the top lane, it just isn't a fun experience to lane against. Do you intend to keep Tahm Kench in the top lane? Are you also aware of how his hit box on his q doesn't line up with the indicator for a second? Sorry for the rant, but im generally curious.

21 Comments

SuperTopLFBottom18 votes

Yes his Q hitbox is ridiculous. Had the pleasure of laning against it twice in a row.

Riot doesn't give a fuck about toplane, we need to make sure he reaches their magical line until they do something i can only suggest to ban him every game until then so you can enjoy irelia, vlad, ryze, riven.

Z3Sleeper2 votes

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i can only suggest to ban him every game until then so you can enjoy irelia, vlad, ryze, riven.

I like how you only listed 4 because there are just too many.

LXII4 votes

He really is an absolute nuisance. You can't walk up to your wave because he'll just walk up to you and start hitting you, then when you try to walk away hit you with that obscene slow and eat you. You're not safe anywhere but your turret, and even then that protection stops being relevant pretty early. I've had some success countering it with Malz or Teemo with Phase Rush but if the enemy jungler had even half a brain they'd just come gank me repeatedly and that strategy wouldn't work either.

I don't even know how they could fix it, so I won't post any ideas, but something really needs to be done. He's wayyyy too strong while being that tanky and having obnoxious cc.

Z3Sleeper2 votes

Do the same thing they did to Sejauni when they had no clue how to balance her.

Heko The Man3 votes

Im trying to avoid playing top lane as much as possible. Useless lane that can't carry shit unless you have ryze top lane in your team that feeds enemy top laner 10+ kills, then yes, it can carry but the enemy team, not you.

JOOTAROOO3 votes

Aatrox's worst deathwish.

Phieldworker2 votes

He is quite strong. I think I’ve only beat him with swain. Usually I have to play like a pansy and wait for the tahm to try and carry.

Tahminatrix 2 votes

They need to weaken his laning phase and up his defensive scaling (he already does enough damage late game believe me) .

Riot reverse power creeped his w and powercreeped his q over several patches.... it used to have a 6 second cd at all ranks then they lowered it to 5...now its 4 at max rank....

Just do something to shift some of his power towards late game because right now he just gets his final point in q + 40% cdr then he achieved his biggest and only real powerspike, probably the biggest powerspike in the game.

Eedat2 votes

Tahm's going to get bounced between lanes because nobody wants tahm in their lane

i piss in jugs2 votes

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Tahm's going to get bounced between lanes because nobody wants tahm in their lane

Say what you will, a large man cannot be ignored.

General Esdeath 2 votes

If his damage was lower he would be fine

He's just a drain tank but with his own built in sustain

FSRER2 votes

Just to say here that, at pbe they are buffing his % max HP damage on w.

hhaavviikk2 votes

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Just to say here that, at pbe they are buffing his % max HP damage on w.

funny thing is that that appears to be done as compensation for nerfing his support role even further which is laughable since support tahm is already dead

ThisName1sDumb2 votes

On most champs you just have to play the lane pretty passive and scale up. Tahm doesn't scale that well. Pretty annoying though, yeah. My first (and I think only?) game playing him I got an S

Trash MammaI1 votes

His Kit DOES belong in top lane as that's where he was originally intended to go

Ragnaveil5 votes

Bet you say that because you hate toplaners.

Trash MammaI4 votes

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Bet you say that because you hate toplaners.

I main top lane, I have no issue with Tahm it's champs like vlad and quinn or riven/darius/renekton that annoy me. Champs that hit a certain level then become impossible to beat unless you've counter picked them

Z3Sleeper2 votes

You hate Darius because he hits a certain level and is impossible to beat?

Meanwhile Tahm hits level 1 and now every melee top laner can duel him. Hits level 2 and now no melee top laner can cs. Hits level 3 and now all damage done to him is meaningless.

Hell Tahm even destroys Darius at every level until he has Legend: Tenacity stacked, Merc Treads and Steraks Gage and then he only has a chance to win since he's not being stunlocked for over 3 quarters of the fight.

DeusVult2 votes

He was always envisioned as a support

he was sold as a support

he was played for years as a support

He could always go top lane, but until his latest changes, he was underwhelming because he lacked damage and consistent CC. Post changes to his kit (especially his Q) mean that he wins against all melee matchups, even if he brings TP and they bring a combat summoner. He doesnt lose vs ranged champs, but he cant really engage on them. His kit just invalidates melee champs, and wasnt meant to be a top laner at all, at this point he should get a minor rework to bring him back to support or become a top laner that doesnt invalidate 80% of the top lane lineup

Trash MammaI1 votes

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He was always envisioned as a support

he was sold as a support

he was played for years as a support

He could always go top lane, but until his latest changes, he was underwhelming because he lacked damage and consistent CC. Post changes to his kit (especially his Q) mean that he wins against all melee matchups, even if he brings TP and they bring a combat summoner. He doesnt lose vs ranged champs, but he cant really engage on them. His kit just invalidates melee champs, and wasnt meant to be a top laner at all, at this point he should get a minor rework to bring him back to support or become a top laner that doesnt invalidate 80% of the top lane lineup

Riot said on his release he was started out as a top laner and meant to be a top laner but they found because of his W being able to eat allies he would make a good support. He wasn't sold as a support upon release in fact he was played both top and support upon release

Golden Worx1 votes

this champ is ridicilous he can litrally be 1/12 and build full tank and out damage characters that actually build full damage. you cant burst him or wear him down in lane bacause of his grey health or shield and you cant even build against his W since he deals so much max health damage

what is someone supposed to do against this champ?

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