Support · 243 games

Tahm Kench

Support · 65% of games Bot · 7%Top · 27%

Strongest when games end at 20–25 minutes (54%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+104 gold).

Win rate: 50.6%; ±6.3 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #21 of 54
Pick rate: 1.3%; ban 0.2%
Games: 243; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Tahm Kench support wins 50.6% of 243 ranked games, rank 21 of 54 support champions (tier B). Most players finish Heartsteel first, at about 13:30.

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 13:41 · 64% · 146 games

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 15:48 · 37% of games

Item 2

Spirit Visage 23:36 · 25% · 23 games

Item 3 · late game

Knight's Vow 29:24 · 7 of 39 games

Runes

Grasp of the Undying · Resolve + Precision 17% of games · 41% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 98% of games · 50% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Heal 43% of games · 48% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Tongue Lash first 85% of games · 52% wins Skill orders →

When Tahm Kench wins

Best when games end at 20–25′

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

Ends before 25′53% wins36% of games · 87

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins61% of games · 149

Lanes

Watch out for Lulu, Janna

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

What wins Tahm Kench games

First Baron: 81% against 32%

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

First Baron 32% 81% +49

Rift Herald 32% 74% +41

First tower 30% 69% +39

First dragon 42% 62% +20

First blood 44% 57% +13

First Voidgrubs 47% 54% +8

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 solo kills

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

More multikills a game0.17 against 0.09 · +89%

More solo kills a game0.3 against 0.2 · +43%

More damage a minute463 against 361 · +28%

More share of team damage13% against 10% · +25%

More damage to towers1500 against 1247 · +20%

About average: gold, minions.

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 ~13:24

Item 2done ~23:24

Item 3done ~30:30

Item 4done ~35:06

Most common full builds

Heartsteel › Plated Steelcaps › Knight's Vow › Locket of the Iron Solari 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

Bandlepipes 83%6

Dusk and Dawn 75%8

Spirit Visage 71%14

Protoplasm Harness 67%6

Knight's Vow 56%9

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 Potion50.2%237

Health Potion + Health Potion + Control Ward66.7%3

Health Potion + Health Potion + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%1

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~15:4847.8%90

Mercury's Treads ~16:0657.4%61

Boots of Swiftness ~14:0060.3%58

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal48.1%104

Flash + Ignite52.1%94

Exhaust + Flash53.5%43

Skills

Max

E51.7%207

Max

W53.8%26

Start

E48.3%178

Start

W58.5%53

Runes · 243 games

Laid out like the game: the most picked rune in each row is in colour. Hover or tap a rune for its name, description and numbers.

Resolve · 51% win · 226 games

Keystones

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14%31%

31%68%

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Inspiration · 47% win · 104 games

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91%51%

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24%52%

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Most played pages

41%41 games

71%21 games

67%18 games

57%7 games

50%6 games

Hard lanes

Watch out for Lulu, Janna

Easy lanes

No clearly easy lane yet

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 5 of 7, wins 3 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 (20)

Leona 44% · 9

Rakan 63% · 8

Bard 63% · 8

Seraphine 57% · 7

Braum 17% · 6

Pyke 50% · 6

Maokai 50% · 6

Karma 80% · 5

Senna 40% · 5

Pantheon 75% · 4

Poppy 50% · 4

Yuumi 100% · 4

Soraka 50% · 4

Nami 50% · 4

Renata Glasc 25% · 4

Neeko 50% · 4

Taric 67% · 3

Milio 33% · 3

Zyra 33% · 3

Xerath 67% · 3

Tahm Kench vs Thresh · 32 games · Fair sample

About what you would expect

47%winsexpected 47%

−23gold at 15′average +104

+0.4minions at 10′ahead or behind

13%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.13 a game

Gold lead against Thresh Tahm Kench's average lead

Against Thresh, Tahm Kench is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 52% of games, and still wins 31% of those. When ahead, Tahm Kench wins 67%.

Ahead at 15′67% wins15 games

Behind at 15′31% wins16 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

Jhin67% · exp. 53% +1421 games

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, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Tahm Kench dies 2.8 times a game (average 2.6). 50% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 47% for the average support. 9% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.8deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.6)

50%involve the enemy junglermore than average (47%)

91%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (90%)

29%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: 31% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 48% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 63% 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 50% (avg 47%)Collapse 41% (avg 43%)1-v-1 9% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Tahm Kench Average

Bot laner 42% (avg 41%)Jungler 25% (avg 25%)Support 15% (avg 14%)Mid laner 15% (avg 15%)Top laner 2% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 5:00–7:00, then every minute

Tahm Kench Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 5:00. 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 jungle

Before 14 minutes: 0.8 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.3 in your jungle. Overall 0.6 kills per death.

Their half of bot lane 0.8 K/D 167 / 209

Your half of bot lane 0.4 K/D 95 / 248

The bot-side river 0.5 K/D 36 / 79

Your jungle 0.3 K/D 13 / 43

Their jungle 0.6 K/D 18 / 32

Your half of mid 0.4 K/D 11 / 30

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 48% of their team's dragon takes (average support 48%). The team wins 67% when Tahm Kench is there and 71% when not.

Leaving laneWorth knowingFirst shows up in mid lane around 11:00 (average 10:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 44%; for Tahm Kench it is 53% against 40%.

Tahm Kench

What most Tahm Kench players run

Best when games end at 20–25′

Watch out for Lulu, Janna

First Baron: 81% against 32%

More multikills, more solo kills

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

Watch out for Lulu, Janna

No clearly easy lane yet

Ahead at 15 against 5 of 7, wins 3 of them

About what you would expect

About what you would expect

About what you would expect

Tahm Kench does worse than expected here

Tahm Kench does worse than expected here

Tahm Kench does better than expected here

About what you would expect

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Tahm Kench's games

Dies about as often as most supports, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Tahm Kench

Ganks come at 3:00 and 5:00–7:00, then every minute

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

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

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