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Tahm Kench champion portrait

Tahm Kench Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 24,051 gamesUpdated

50.6%win rate1.1%pick4.1%ban

Who counters Tahm Kench

Every Top matchup for Tahm Kench, ranked →

How to build Tahm Kench

Plated Steelcaps→Heartsteel→Dusk and Dawn→Thornmail

Plated Steelcaps → Heartsteel → Dusk and Dawn → Thornmail

54.7% win rate 13% of games 1,784 games
RunesResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindUnflinchingPrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph49% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite63%
Skills
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Tongue Lash
14578
Abyssal Dive
29101213
Thick Skin
314151718
Devour
61116
StartDoran's ShieldHealth PotionDoran's Shield, Health Potion
Full Tahm Kench build →
50.6%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.6% over 57,892 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.6% over 24,051 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.3%at Emerald+
1.1%pick rate
4.1%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
52.5%under 22 min
51.4%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.

Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Tahm Kench champion portraitT Tahm KenchvsVolibear champion portraitT Volibear
3 / 7 / 2

Build

Boots of Swiftness|Warmog's Armor

Spells & runes

IgniteGhost|

Skills

QEQWQRQEQWRWWW
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Tahm Kench champion portraitT Tahm KenchvsShen champion portraitT Shen
3 / 5 / 3

Build

Boots of Swiftness|Heartsteel→Dusk and Dawn

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QWQEQRQWQWRWWEE
Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Tahm Kench champion portraitT Tahm KenchvsTrundle champion portraitT Trundle
4 / 6 / 11

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Dusk and Dawn→Titanic Hydra→Spirit Visage

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWWRWEEERE

Runes

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

Most popular 51.1% win rate · 49% of games · 11,258 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindUnflinching
PrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 48.6% win rate · 15% of games · 3,392 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 + Ignite63%50.5%15,774 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport18%49.4%4,510 games

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps54%Mercury's Treads28%Boots of Swiftness15%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 50.2% 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. Thornmail3rd
6% of games that reach a third item take this path55.1% win rate764 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Tahm Kench →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 24,504 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
53% · 50.4% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
27% · 50.4% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
14% · 55.6% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 45.3% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 44.5% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
<1% · 47.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Heartsteel›Dusk and Dawn+Plated Steelcaps5% of games · 52.8% win rate · 1,300 games
  2. Heartsteel+Plated Steelcaps5% of games · 35.0% win rate · 1,275 games
  3. Dusk and Dawn›Heartsteel+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 46.2% win rate · 712 games
  4. Heartsteel›Dusk and Dawn+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 49.9% win rate · 609 games
  5. Heartsteel+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 34.4% win rate · 599 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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