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Tahm Kench
Patch 16.2.1
SupportDifficulty
Medium
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Identify the enemy's biggest threat. Use to protect your carry from that threat, or use your high health and stuns to lock that threat down while your team follows up.
Playstyle
A beefy Warden-style support that excels at neutralizing divers and 'kidnapping' out-of-position enemies. You alternate between being an immovable frontline and a life-preserver for your ADC.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +Incredible lane sustain through healing and passive
- + is the best 'save' in the game for protecting your carry
- +High base damage from allows you to win 1v1s against most supports
- +Long-range engage and roam potential with
Weaknesses
- -Very telegraphed engage— is easy to dodge without setup
- -Missing leaves you with zero pressure or sustain
- -Extremely long cooldown on in the early game
- -Easily kited by high-mobility champions if you can't land the initial slow
Abilities
You deal bonus magic damage based on your health. Every auto or ability adds a stack. At 3 stacks, you can use on enemies. Don't stop hitting them; your damage scales directly with how much HP you build.
Your main tool. It slows and heals you. If the target has 3 stacks from , it stuns them instead. Use this to fish for picks or keep people in range for more autos.
A long-range dive that knocks up enemies. It has a long wind-up, so it's best used from a brush (fog of war) or after you've already slowed the enemy with .
The reason you're hard to kill. You store damage as 'gray health'. If you wait, you heal. If you press it, you get a shield. Use the shield only when you're about to take lethal damage; otherwise, let it heal you.
Eat an ally to shield them and keep them safe, or eat an enemy with 3 stacks of to suppress them. This is your game-changer. Use it to stop an assassin from killing your ADC or to drag an enemy into your tower.
Teamfight Role
Protective Frontliner
Position yourself between your ADC and the enemy divers. Use to slow anyone trying to get close. Save specifically for when your carry is CC'd or about to take a burst of damage.
If you manage to get 3 stacks on an enemy carry, use to take them out of the fight entirely for a few seconds.
Combos
Standard Stun
Auto → Auto →
The fastest way to lock someone down. Two autos build stacks, then applies the third stack and instantly stuns.
The Kidnap
Auto → Auto → → Auto →
Build 3 stacks using the stun, then hit one more auto to refresh the stacks before using . Walk the enemy back into your team or under your turret.
Long Range Catch
→
Land the slow from first. This makes it much harder for the enemy to walk out of the knockup radius.
Bush Gank
from brush → Auto → → Auto →
Use the lack of vision to land a surprise . Follow up with the full stack rotation to isolate a target.
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 1 | poke and heal is oppressive. You can out-trade almost any other support if you land it. |
| Level 3 | You have access to for engage and for tankiness. Your all-in potential is now online. |
| Level 6 | is unlocked. You can now save your ADC from any mistake or punish an overextended enemy. |
| Level 11 | Second point in lowers the cooldown significantly, allowing you to be more aggressive with it in teamfights. |
Tips & Tricks
- •Don't use too early. The longer you wait, the more 'gray health' you accumulate, giving you a bigger shield or more healing.
- •You can use to jump over walls. Use this for unconventional gank paths or to escape.
- •The heal on scales with missing health. Use it when you are low to bait enemies into a bad trade.
- •If you an ally, you can still use to transport them a long distance away from danger.
- • applies a stack of . You can use this to get that 3rd stack from range before moving in for .
- •While an enemy is inside your , you are grounded and slowed, but you can still walk toward your own tower.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Using to stun when you wanted to use on an enemy→The stun consumes all stacks. You will have to auto-attack 3 more times before you can use on them.
- ✕Tapping for a tiny shield→You lose all the potential healing from your gray health for a shield that breaks instantly.
- ✕Using as your only way to start a fight→The wind-up is so slow that enemies will just walk away. Always try to slow them with first.
- ✕Eating an ally with too early→You take your own carry's damage out of the fight. Only eat them to save them from death or heavy CC.
- ✕Forgetting that damage scales with Health→If you build too many resistance items without Health, your damage will be non-existent in the mid-game.
AI-generated guide • Patch 16.2.1 • Cached