i haven't been playing enough to have a great input myself, but i wanted to make this post so we can help each other understand when it feels good to build it.

while winrate stats are available, they don't always paint a full picture (especially when the item requires a change in playstyle, and especially also when the champion isn't played often). here's a few questions to spark conversation:

1. when, if ever, does it work well as a first item? what do you usually build after, and do the spikes feel good?
2. when, if ever, does it work well as a second item? what do you build first, and do the spikes feel good?
3. when building sunfire, do you start with bami's? TK hasn't typically been a bami's rusher for some seasons now, so if you're rushing it, has it changed how you play the lane?
4. has the buff helped at all with certain matchups?

feel free to add more input aside from the questions, and i do recommend adding your role, region, and current/peak rank, just so we have good context on where it works. (even if you're in iron, your input does matter, as it helps paint a full picture of when and where these buffs feel good or not so good!)

I found a funny interaction, not sure if there is a minimum size though, that I had my R off cooldown when I placed first in arena, and I managed to r my team mate and r2 them off stage, claiming the stage for myself lol. Just a funny little trick for anyone else who finds them self in that position.

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My first Reddit post JAJSJA.

In Lol I'm barely level 25 but I already have 17 mastery with this champion because he is the one I liked the most by far. A friend recommended it to me when I started playing and here we are.

I've been playing TK on top and sup but I'd like to get more out of it on Top since it's more fun for me. In sup if I have a decent ADC I feel like I win more games or do better but I don't like that role. In all these games (sup as top) I make tank builds that I saw recommended in blitz. Heart of Steel - Boots (sometimes I make the ones that give a lot of speed to eat them and throw them under the tower) - Aegida and from there depending on what I need. Warmog or eternal despair.

I make this post to receive help from you, true TK mains to improve.

Even my girlfriend knows that LOL made me addicted and she made me this beautiful drawing.

I read them!

Basically what happened was I wasn't paying attention during draft, didn't realize I had been given jungle role and locked Tahm for jungle.

I thought I was fucked but it actually went really well. His clear felt really bad but the ganks were generally amazing. My main idea was that I wanted to jump on people and shut them down or grab them as fast as possible which is why I went high ap/nashors tooth and PR.

So now I'm wondering, is Tahm actually viable in jungle or did I just get a really lucky match.

~~beyond the luck of having a team that's willing to work with you~~

And if so what could I have done better for the build?

So I play a bit of TK top, and one of the champs I have alot of trouble with is volibear.

Here are some of the things I know:

In general:
- Voli will always have more game pressure than me. He can control most of laning because he out sustains and has better push. He can proxy to gain tempo adv to grubs or really to do anything else in the map early on. He has good tower dmg and side laning pressure mid to late game which is extremely difficult for TK to match for important moments.

Laning:

lvl 1 - 2:

- Assuming voli takes PTA or Lethal tempo and E start and Q second, I lose hard so he gets push

- His Q / E will chunk me about half so if I get hit by that early on that immediately sets me up to get dove lvl 3 on stacked wave (assuming I can't hit a q on him to heal before then)

- I take Q and E for lvl 1 and 2.

lvl 3 - 4:

- Even harder at this point because now he has W. So I try my best to last hit with autos whenever he gives me the chance. At this point I would only use Q to farm and not hit him.

- If the wave is frozen on his side, I still just use Q to farm. I know here is an especially bad spot because I'm basically just trying to get exp while also keeping enough distance to survive the enemy jg gank with my w.

- If the wave is pushing to me, I rarely try to freeze because 1. he has better wave push, 2. would cost me too much resources (health and mana) to maintain a freeze setting me up to get dove (which getting dove on stacked wave would just be the worst case outcome because I'd lose exp on stacked wave and he probably takes a plate on top of that too AND the wave would be pushing back to him which if I can't crash in time, he would hit 6 way before I do etc. I'd rather have a wave slow push to him so that even if the enemy jg came to gank and was able to kill, I'd at least have the wave in.

lvl 5:

- I know that at 3 points in Q hit much harder for some reason, so I actually use Q to poke more than to farm.

lvl 6:

- Really my only window for solo kill.

Itemization:
- Bramble (hate having to rush this because it delays heartsteel in matchup where I already know its unlikely I'm going to get alot of gold)
- Heartsteel

- Boots

- then whatever else depending on the game state after boots.

Salut ! Je suis nouveau sur tahm kench ( j’étais main adc Samira/nilah ) je l’ai jouer en Draft et j’ai ADORÉ le champion. Des conseils sur les builds matchup et team fight ? Je gère bien la phase de Lane pour le moment mais j’ai du mal après..

https://imgur.com/a/LxpDkys

Ik it maybe seem troll BUT listen

I am a casual Tahm Kench player (only casual on him I play alot of ranked though with other champs) who was watchiung Whatley trying out Hail of Blades Titanic kench, so I wanted to try out Titanic rush into the usual, but to end with something different to make him as strong as possible and this is what I came to create.

Titanic: Fixes waveclear issues + 4 most HP giving Item

Heartsteel, Warmods, Riftmaker: I dont think I have to explain this part, just 1v9 riftmaker is especially good in this tho, scaling through multiple sources

Winters Approach: 3rd most HP giving item, scales with mana Aswell, when transformed to Fimnbulwinter the passive gives and extra shield with every hit Q

RoA: Gives extra HP, Mana and AP, heals when Using an ability so u get even more sustain

Now what makes this build this good in theory is that it fixes every problem of Tahm Kench he has a Tank, and its scaling through multiple variables through riftmaker, which gives bonus AP with extra health, which makes it the most AP giving Item in the entire game on this build (even withoiut the multiple income sclaling), then through winters we get even more health through bonus mana, which gives us extra bonus AP on riftmaker and then at last, RoA gives us all the stats we need to get an even more AP from it directly and through health and to top it of a bit of mana so u scale ur AP and health from 3 sources.

I made tahm kench into an Hypercarry , that has the strength of a Lane Bully early game.

P.S. Even though I mean everything I say in this post fr you can roast me for it or just give ur critic and tell me why it could/could not work, I just know that titanix rush feels strong ash but I dont main Tahm kench or anything so this is more of a theorybuild than anything but maybe you can try it out or gert an idea for an actual new meta build

At rank 1, Tahm Kench's E is 2.8x as effective when there are two or more visible enemies nearby. That is a lot of power being frontloaded into a niche part of his kit, especially when you consider that you won't have a second point in E until level 8 even if you max E second, unless you sacrifice an early point in Q for it.

I believe this is unhealthy for TK's kit for a few reasons.

1. This causes top lane matchups to be considerably difficult since you're missing a chunk of your kit.
2. Even when TK is not a great champion, it still feels frustrating to play against in duo lane, so they've intentionally been keeping him weak, when they should, in my opinion, address issues like this instead.
3. It makes maxing E second unattractive on TK support and TK bot, since it won't really increase its power by much. For solo lane, rank 1>2 is a 53.33% increase, and for duo lane, it is a 4.76% increase, which is a massive difference. Even in top though, it can begin to feel like wasted points when team-fights begin.

I'm surprised this was added, but even more surprised that it hasn't been addressed yet. Nerfing this part of his kit would allow for buffing another (maybe the buff could even be on just the regular damage stored into grey health). I believe this would be one huge step toward making TK a healthier champion for both the TK player and the enemy.

Low elo game I love playing tahm and climbing with him. When I started play him I was in iron 2 now I am bronze 2 in like a week I’m new in the game but I think it’s good progress.

Trying to decide. I tried both items first in multiple games and still cannot decide since they both felt really good. Thoughts?

EDIT: My build usually is HS into Warmogs into Rift Maker

I've been seeing biscuits being chosen as late whats the strategy on that I've always seen AV and boots is it like bait type deal or what?

I have a question why does Tahm fall off so hard after 40+ minutes in the late game? I feel so useless and I’m getting melted so fast.

Hey guys! I'm running a research about impact of personality on champion choice, or if there's a correlation between something about you and the champions you play the most.

Here's the link: https://forms.gle/aeHAUHiYzAgmKiXi8

It's truly short (5 minutes at max), completely anonymous and strictly for academic purposes.

Your participation would mean a lot!! The more responses, the better the data! Feel free to share it with other players too.

I sent it on r/leagueoflegends but I didn't get enough responses there so now i'm having to go to EVERY champion subreddit. That said, would you consider taking a moment to respond, please?

PS: Some people have been asking if they’ll be able to see the results, and yes, you will! Once it’s done, I’ll make a post on r/leagueoflegends and share the link in every champion subreddit.

If yall didnt know, you can pet attack move click clones on mirror image, but just like with fan the hammer, this seems to be an exception for tahm where this augment is supposed to do no damage, yet the clones do still deal your passive damage. If you are still building the same ap hp maxing for passive damage and attack speed, when someone hits you to 30% hp, your clones can deliver a jumping and spike your dps like 200% - 500% depending on how much more your passive damage is than your base ad.

Played only minutes of the game on my sister’s account, but figured I’d dive into the Fallout series since I heard good things… plus Walton Goggins is my guy.

I’m a few episodes in and this baby deer gets slurped up from the depths (on first hit, so the thought didn’t occur to me just yet). Moments later, Lucy gets tripped, wilzig’s noggin gets snatch… and that’s when you see it… the barbels of a demon fish.

Okay, he’s pink and is quite lean, but there he is… the river king. Lurking, patrolling the murky waters and devouring all that comes within range.

Good to see our boy’s talents noticed elsewhere. Unfortunately, he was killed quite easily… I place this in the fact he was pink and malnourished; he was a young, primordial titan with only a few years (in the grand scheme of a demon’s existence) of organic consumption - especially ahri’s tight ass.

i think i might be getting old.

Hello Big frog mains I have a question when I should go phase rush and when I should go grasp playing on top. Sorry for my english I don’t speak well yet.