The current state of Tahm Kench

dragon n1nja·11/16/2015, 6:45:45 PM·7 votes·819 views

Now this is the only time ive ever felt the need to complain since being a player since last year. I just want to know the reasoning behind the Tons of Damage that TahmKench can output by himself. Every game where there is a Tahm, ally or enemy he will just outdamage mostly anyone on the other team. Im okay with him being tanky and very annoying to kill, and even more annoying for assasin players, but I just dont get why a Champion who is tankier than other champs can still deal so much damage. He doesnt even need items, just get levels and suddenly your HP bar goes down by absurd ammounts.

My final point is that many players already thought that Tahm Kench was OP back when he was released, but he just kept getting buffed and buffed. And now its very fustrating going against a Tahm, and when I pick Tahm i just feel cheap, like a cheated, because it is waay to easy to win with Tahm Maybe im wrong, What do you think? Rioters and players

EDIT: Im gonna add what triggered me to write this post Was playing Zed( pls rito just revert him back to his original state) I was 5/0 against a yasuo so I was really ahead in damage, I decided to roam bot to help out and when I got there, my bot lane had just died, only an enem tahm kench was left, he only had sightstone and a giants belt, he didnt even have kills, or that much gold earned, still he just rekt me and out damaged a fed zed, later I would try poke with Q, it would only do about 5% of his HP and Tahm kenchs Q would do about 20% of mine. At this moment my team just gave up, I wanted to carry as hard as possible but even going after their squishies would end in my death, tahm wouldnt devourer his allies, just me..

16 Comments

Penns11/16/2015, 7:06:09 PM3 votes

Most other damage tanks do more dmg than Tahm c:

Andrionar11/16/2015, 9:23:58 PM2 votes

I agree with you. In my 3th game with him I could kill hecarim 100-0 who were same level as me and had almost same amount of gold. I had devourer and wits end only, as my demage items

P.S tahmk kenh is not even hard to play, I could say that the difficulty of him is almost the same as playing with annie.

Lovelle11/17/2015, 3:00:08 AM2 votes

I just hate how Tahm can make such a difference for his team just by existing. He takes WAY too many resources to kill, which let's his team clean up since you wasted all of your cooldowns just trying to get Tahm to back off of you. Ignoring him isn't an option either, because he will destroy your team if you don't focus him. His ult can also make it very difficult to contest for objectives. Then lastly, he can fully deny kills.

Right now there's no real risk to playing Tahm. You get rewarded just for picking him. One could say he has no escapes, but he doesn't need one when he never dies.

If he did far less damage or was less tanky, his utility would still make him a decent champion.

LadyRenly11/17/2015, 3:01:06 AM1 votes

as a top laner I love his damage

Spoofghoul11/17/2015, 9:15:39 AM1 votes

People forget that most of Tahms damage is single target.

Sure he packs a punch past lvl 6. But unlike Chogath Amumu Sejuani he can't damage 5 enemies at once.

Dont forget most of his utility is also in his most damaging ability so its either nuke your enemy or save your ally.