Tahm Kench is a toxic champ in the wrong hands.

BubblyRainbows·8/7/2017, 9:13:29 PM·4 votes·1,179 views

Tahm Kench's W needs to be changed so that you can't eat teammates. This ability makes me cringe EVERY time I get a Tahm Kench on my team, because of games like my last one, where I had a Tahm on my team, and he did one of two things ALL GAME LONG.

  1. I was about to get a kill. Tahm eats me, kills opponent, spits me out.
  2. Tahm eats me for no reason, runs out to the opposing team, spits me into the middle of them all and runs away.

This is beyond tilting. Sure, there are other champs that CAN troll your team, but Kench seems to overwhelmingly draw trolls to play him and ruin the game for other people. Or at the very least, change the dodge penalties so that there is no penalty for dodging a game with Tahm Kench IF TAHM IS ON YOUR TEAM.

And for the sake of both sides, I do own Tahm Kench, and there is another problem with his W. I can't count the number of times I have tried to eat a minion so I could spit it at the enemy, but because a teammate was standing close to the minion, I've eaten my teammate instead. That's almost as annoying as being specifically trolled by Kench. Accidentally being trolled by Kench.

Buff the W in some other way. Have it so it doesn't slow him as much when he swallows an enemy or something. But please, the ability to swallow teammates needs to go. It's way too tilting when you get a troll who just wants to ruin your game. And Riot has NO way to detect people being trolled this way. I reported the asshat that spent the last game trolling me, but no one is ever going to punish him for it. Because EVERY time he got me killed, and believe me, it was OBVIOUS that it was intentional, he'd go and type "Sorry. Misclicked." in the chat.

13 Comments

Beas7ie8/7/2017, 9:25:55 PM3 votes

I actually am still surprised Riot has even released a champ like Kench. They have been saying for years that they don't want a champ with abilities that can "Forcefully" move players without their consent due to the potential for trolling. That was one of the main reasons why Thresh's lantern works the way it does. He can't move players with it if they don't want to be moved.

I've fortunately never been in a game where I've seen a Kench outrolling trolling or griefing like that, but I have heard of it and seen it in Youtube.

There was a Korean player quite infamous for duoing with a friend who played Anivia and they would just spend their games trolling their teams. They did this for almost 300 games and it took them getting to the front page of Reddit before they got banned(seems to be just a 2 week ban).

But players need to have some kind of option to check to allow them to NOT be affected by abilities from teammates if people are going to outright troll.

l2 4 G 38/7/2017, 10:03:41 PM2 votes

Just more proof that Riot says one thing then does another that completely contradicts the former, and doesn't really care how much grief it brings to their players bc it's "working as intended"

KawaiiShroom8/7/2017, 9:44:42 PM1 votes

There are a lot of champions that can troll you. Bard/thresh lantern/Tunnel to your death. Bard ult to trap you. Zac/Janna ulting the enemy darius/nasus into your team.

MaropaL28/7/2017, 11:02:54 PM1 votes

i've recently seen this video with tham catching the ally and anvia walling him off :D or tham sucking up an ally and then smiting the buff himself :D

wanna try tahm soon

Jun Long8/13/2017, 4:20:01 PM1 votes

I just lost a ranked game due to a bad tahm kench. I feel you.