To all the people saying tahm is broken why is he not played a lot in high elo?

boricCentaur1·6/23/2019, 3:15:08 PM·0 votes·745 views

Like that just kills any argument to tahm being broken since if he is then people would play or ban him. Like Korea which is the hardest sever to play one has him with a lower play rate then poppy.

Like champions like riven or jax have good play rates meaning you can't dismiss them like tahm.

Please just learn how to play against him instead of making posted about him being broken.

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ModThe Djinn6/23/2019, 3:35:58 PM1 votes

While I'm not Tahm Kench expert, something can be broken in one MMR range and balanced or even underpowered in another. Garen and Master Yi have been recurring examples of this throughout League's history.

If I had to guess, it's that Tahm Kench isn't actually the strongest top-laner, but what he does do is change the rules of top lane, much like Singed does. You can't play the normal sort of duel-heavy top lane that many players expect to against Tahm unless you're on one of a few characters, and that throws off people who aren't as used to adapting their top-lane strategy. Since people who are worse at changing/adapting their playstyle to suit their opponents often end up in lower MMRs, this leads to a situation where Tahm is hugely frustrating and apparently overpowered (whether or not he's overtuned, which I won't comment on) to a portion of the playerbase.

Kelg6/23/2019, 4:58:15 PM1 votes

He's not really broken, he's just insufferable to play against as a melee toplaner.