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Tahm Kench champion portrait

Tahm Kench Build

Mid Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,116 gamesUpdated

47.7%win rate0.1%pick4.1%ban

Who counters Tahm Kench

How to build Tahm Kench

Chainlaced Crushers→Heartsteel→Dusk and Dawn→Thornmail

Chainlaced Crushers → Heartsteel → Dusk and Dawn → Thornmail

41.7% win rate 12% of games 72 games
RunesResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindUnflinchingPrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph38% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite59%
Skills
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Tongue Lash
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Abyssal Dive
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Thick Skin
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Devour
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Tahm Kench build →
47.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.4% over 2,598 gamesPatch 26.21: 47.7% over 1,116 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
47.2%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
4.1%ban rate
▼ Downwas Tier 1 last patch
54.5%under 22 min
46.1%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Tahm Kench champion portraitM Tahm KenchvsYone champion portraitM Yone
3 / 3 / 13

Build

Armored Advance|Heartsteel→Dusk and Dawn

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

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Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Tahm Kench champion portraitM Tahm KenchvsLeBlanc champion portraitM LeBlanc
7 / 10 / 11

Build

Chainlaced Crushers|Heartsteel→Dusk and Dawn→Hollow Radiance

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWEWERE
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Tahm Kench champion portraitM Tahm KenchvsVladimir champion portraitM Vladimir
1 / 4 / 3

Build

Immortal Path|Heartsteel

Spells & runes

IgniteGhost|

Skills

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Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 50.3% win rate · 38% of games · 360 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindUnflinching
PrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 47.2% win rate · 23% of games · 218 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindRevitalize
DominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite59%50.6%694 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport18%44.0%209 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Chainlaced Crushers45%Armored Advance32%Swiftmarch15%
Chainlaced Crushers most often · 47.3% win rate

Tahm Kench build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Heartsteel1st
  2. Dusk and Dawn2nd
  3. Riftmaker3rd
6% of games that reach a third item take this path67.6% win rate37 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Tahm Kench →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,140 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
44% · 47.5% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
31% · 47.7% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
15% · 52.9% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 37.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Heartsteel›Dusk and Dawn+Chainlaced Crushers5% of games · 46.3% win rate · 54 games
  2. Heartsteel+Chainlaced Crushers3% of games · 35.9% win rate · 39 games
  3. Heartsteel+Armored Advance3% of games · 56.7% win rate · 30 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Tahm Kench against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Tahm Kench's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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