Top · 72 games · NA

Tahm Kench

Top · 41% of games Support · 51%

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−276 gold).

Win rate: 33.3%; ±10.9 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: D; #77 of 77
Pick rate: 1.2%; ban 0.3%
Games: 72; ranked solo/duo

Tahm Kench top wins 33.3% of 72 ranked games in NA, rank 77 of 77 top champions (tier D). Most players finish Heartsteel first, at about 12:06.

The build at a glance

What most Tahm Kench players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Heartsteel 12:29 · 89% · 57 games

Boots

Boots of Swiftness 16:06 · 43% of games

Item 2

Dusk and Dawn 21:07 · 88% · 38 games

Item 3

Riftmaker 25:42 · 80% · 12 games

Item 4 · late game

Spirit Visage 32:54 · 3 of 5 games

Runes

Grasp of the Undying · Resolve + Precision 22% of games · 50% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Shield + Health Potion 57% of games · 32% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 35% of games · 40% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Tongue Lash first 93% of games · 34% wins Skill orders →

When Tahm Kench wins

Win rate by game length

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

Ends before 25′31% wins36% of games · 26

Lasts 25′ or more39% wins57% of games · 41

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

First Baron: 61% against 20%

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

First Baron 20% 61% +40

First tower 20% 50% +30

Rift Herald 22% 52% +30

First dragon 21% 47% +26

First blood 27% 40% +13

First Voidgrubs 33% 33% ±0

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

Fewer control wards, fewer multikills

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

Fewer control wards a game0.08 against 0.45 · −82%

Fewer multikills a game0.26 against 0.42 · −38%

Less damage to towers5933 against 8625 · −31%

Less vision a minute0.69 against 0.81 · −15%

Fewer minions a minute6.5 against 7.4 · −12%

About average: damage, share of team damage, solo kills.

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 ~12:24

Item 2done ~20:54

Item 3done ~27:36

Item 4done ~33:24

Most common full builds

Heartsteel › Boots of Swiftness › Dusk and Dawn › Riftmaker 75.0%12 games

Heartsteel › Boots of Swiftness › Dusk and Dawn › Randuin's Omen 33.3%3 games

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

Riftmaker 100%5

Spirit Visage 50%8

Dusk and Dawn 47%17

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

Doran's Shield + Health Potion31.7%41

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion50.0%16

Doran's Helm + Health Potion21.4%14

Boots

Boots of Swiftness ~16:0648.4%31

Plated Steelcaps ~14:4227.3%22

Mercury's Treads ~17:3620.0%10

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite40.0%25

Ghost + Ignite33.3%12

Flash + Teleport27.3%11

Skills

Max

E34.3%67

Max

W25.0%4

Start

E40.6%32

Start

Q33.3%24

Dies less than most top laners, but more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Tahm Kench dies 1.9 times a game (average 2.4). 42% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 39% for the average top laner. 51% are fair 1-v-1s.

1.9deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.4)

42%involve the enemy junglermore than average (39%)

49%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (48%)

85%with no teammate nearabout average (83%)

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 top lane

Ganks: 44% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 56% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 74% in your half of top 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 top laner

What kills Tahm Kench

Kind of death

Tahm Kench Average

Gank 42% (avg 39%)Collapse 6% (avg 9%)1-v-1 51% (avg 52%)

Who gets the kill

Tahm Kench Average

Bot laner 1% (avg 1%)Jungler 26% (avg 24%)Support 1% (avg 2%)Mid laner 4% (avg 7%)Top laner 67% (avg 64%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 7:00 and 9:00

Tahm Kench Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 7:00 and 9:00.

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 top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.3 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.6 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.8 kills per death.

Your half of top lane 0.6 K/D 53 / 84

Their half of top lane 1.3 K/D 48 / 38

The top-side river 0.5 K/D 5 / 11

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 16% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 53% when Tahm Kench is there and 58% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 18:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Tahm Kench it is 38% against 32%.

Tahm Kench

What most Tahm Kench players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 61% against 20%

Fewer control wards, fewer multikills

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

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Tahm Kench's games

Dies less than most top laners, but more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Tahm Kench

Ganks come at 3:00, 7:00 and 9:00

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

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your half of top lane

Where fights happen