Pain is a bit too bitter for my tastes. Anguish, not that, is a tender, supple delicacy.
As a Tahm player it is a dozen times more rewarding to save an ally and make a great play then to troll. Yeah you can, but it gets old. Fast. Novelty wears off. The reward and exhileration is tenfold when you make a positive play, because not only are you playing the only champ that can LITERALLY use magic god fingers to pick up an ally and put them some where safe, you are also capable of merging together Bard's Magical Journey with Rek'Sai's Void Rush in a Fusion HA style ally teleport. This lets you collapse on dragon , baron, or just simple team fights, as well as helping you and an ally flank the enemy or escaping from deep inside the enemy jungle.
A fantasy that as a support I've had for so long. ADC's yelling at you for not saving them when you complain about their bad positioning and say It's not like I can stop you from engaging and comitting to bad fights Well with tahm you can. And it's not just Tahm's ability to play Babysitter and pick up your adc like a kitten in a mother's mouth and ferry them back to a safe spot and tell them to play nice. You also are given the ability to , with 3 Stacks of flavorin, devour an enemy that would have otherwise either A) Unloaded tons of DPS B) Assassinated an ally or C) Deny enemy jungle the ability to smite an objective.
You will still get a troll but once people realize you can exit early from Tahm they will get bored trolling. Because if Tahm eats you and runs into the enemy to spit you out, if you end up jumping out early behind him HE IS THE ONE stuck with the enemy and with no ADC for them to target they'll collapse on him. Let the Tahm trolls troll, they are a lonely bunch and will be forgotten soon. And remember, in a clustered team fight, it's very likely an ally Tahm devoured you on accident (missclick) rather then the 3 stacked Garen. Because I'd rather kill Garen then troll you in this situation. When I do devour you, pls trust me, as I can usually ferry you in my stomach faster then you would be able to move on your own.
Many times I swallow an ally to help reposition us and they jump out early and we both slow down. I understand why, the potential for me to troll. But we must try to work through this phase because that's all it is: a phase. Also note once I begin my ult, I can cancel it by moving, like Kat or Mal or Miss Fortune ults. It goes on a 10s cd and refunds full mana cost. However, once you do jump in, we are both sent to my destination immediately no questions asked. After landing in our destination, my Devour (W) will be on a 1.5 or so secondn cooldown, so I can't immediately use it. This is a key thing to remember as I've arrived with an ally in a team fight and my ally died, literally with me not having time to devour him to save him. He really thought I sent him to his doom despite the other 3 people on our team being there.
Together, we can all find family in one another at the dinner table. An ally's pain may sate some Tahm's appetite's, but I've grown to hunger for the anguish of my enemies. So let us all pull up to the table and dine.