Support · 91 games · NA

Tahm Kench

Support · 51% of games Top · 41%

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (53%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+197 gold).

Win rate: 45.1%; ±10.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #40 of 50
Pick rate: 1.5%; ban 0.3%
Games: 91; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Tahm Kench support wins 45.1% of 91 ranked games in NA, rank 40 of 50 support champions (tier C). Most players finish Heartsteel first, at about 13:48.

The build at a glance

What most Tahm Kench players run

Each item: the most common choice, following the ones before it.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 16:12 · 33% of games

Item 1

Heartsteel 14:05 · 75% · 62 games

Item 2

Spirit Visage 24:06 · 26% · 10 games

Runes

Grasp of the Undying · Resolve + Precision 22% of games · 35% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 99% of games · 44% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 45% of games · 44% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Tongue Lash first 89% of games · 48% wins Skill orders →

When Tahm Kench wins

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′55% wins24% of games · 22

Lasts 25′ or more43% wins71% of games · 65

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Tahm Kench games

Rift Herald: 72% against 27%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

Rift Herald 27% 72% +45

First Baron 30% 71% +41

First tower 24% 63% +39

First dragon 33% 60% +27

First blood 45% 45% +0

First Voidgrubs 50% 41% −9

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Tahm Kench plays

More multikills, more damage

What stands out (10% or more) against the average support. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More multikills a game0.20 against 0.10 · +100%

More damage a minute468 against 364 · +29%

More share of team damage13% against 10% · +26%

More solo kills a game0.3 against 0.2 · +25%

More damage to towers1692 against 1372 · +23%

About average: minions, gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~13:54

Item 2done ~23:36

Item 3done ~30:30

Item 4done ~36:18

Most common full builds

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Dusk and Dawn 71%7

Spirit Visage 63%8

Knight's Vow 60%5

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Health Potion + Health Potion44.4%90

Health Potion + Health Potion + Control Ward100.0%1

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~16:1236.7%30

Boots of Swiftness ~15:0064.3%28

Mercury's Treads ~16:2440.0%25

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite43.9%41

Flash + Heal43.8%32

Exhaust + Flash50.0%16

Skills

Max

E48.1%81

Max

E0.0%4

Start

E42.4%66

Start

W57.9%19

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

No clearly easy lane yet

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 1 of 1, wins 0 of them

Expected: what Tahm Kench's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (12)

Nautilus 50% · 8

Blitzcrank 67% · 6

Rell 20% · 5

Janna 20% · 5

Seraphine 50% · 4

Bard 50% · 4

Renata Glasc 25% · 4

Nami 50% · 4

Rakan 100% · 3

Xerath 67% · 3

Milio 33% · 3

Lulu 0% · 3

Tahm Kench vs Thresh · 11 games · Early read

Tahm Kench does worse than expected here

36%winsexpected 42%

+3gold at 15′average +197

−0.3minions at 10′ahead or behind

9%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.18 a game

Gold lead against Thresh Tahm Kench's average lead

Against Thresh, Tahm Kench is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 60% of games and wins 50% of those. When behind, Tahm Kench wins 25%.

Ahead at 15′50% wins6 games

Behind at 15′25% wins4 games

Full Tahm Kench vs Thresh page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most supports

Before 14 minutes Tahm Kench dies 2.5 times a game (average 2.5). 46% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 46% for the average support. 10% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.5deaths per game before 14′about average (2.5)

46%involve the enemy junglerabout average (46%)

90%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (90%)

30%with no teammate nearmore than average (26%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Tahm Kench dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

Ganks: 29% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 50% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 65% in their half of bot lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average support

What kills Tahm Kench

Kind of death

Tahm Kench Average

Gank 46% (avg 46%)Collapse 44% (avg 44%)1-v-1 10% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Tahm Kench Average

Bot laner 44% (avg 42%)Jungler 22% (avg 24%)Support 13% (avg 15%)Mid laner 19% (avg 15%)Top laner 2% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Tahm Kench Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Tahm Kench; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Tahm Kench wins fights

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Before 14 minutes: 0.9 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.4 in your half of bot lane. Overall 0.6 kills per death.

Their half of bot lane 0.9 K/D 67 / 72

Your half of bot lane 0.4 K/D 31 / 88

The bot-side river 0.5 K/D 14 / 28

Their jungle 0.8 K/D 9 / 12

Your jungle 0.3 K/D 4 / 16

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Tahm Kench wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 49% of their team's dragon takes (average support 50%). The team wins 61% when Tahm Kench is there and 60% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 12:00 (average 11:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 44%; for Tahm Kench it is 49% against 35%.

Tahm Kench

What most Tahm Kench players run

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

No clear counters yet

Rift Herald: 72% against 27%

More multikills, more damage

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Ahead at 15 against 1 of 1, wins 0 of them

Tahm Kench does worse than expected here

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Tahm Kench's games

Dies about as often as most supports

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Tahm Kench

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Where fights happen