What are Tahm Kench's abilities?

Tahm Kench's kit: An Acquired Taste (Passive), Q Tongue Lash, W Abyssal Dive, E Thick Skin, R Devour.

What position does Tahm Kench play?

Tahm Kench is typically played in the Tank and Support roles.

Champions / Tahm Kench

The River King

Tahm Kench

TankSupportDifficulty · Moderate

Win rate

50.5%

Tier

BSupport

Pick

4.7%

Ban

2.3%

// What they do

// Abilities

Passive

An Acquired Taste

Tahm Kench puts the heft of his immense body behind his attacks, gaining extra damage based on his total health. Damaging enemy champions builds stacks of An Acquired Taste. At three stacks, he can use Devour on an enemy champion.

// Base stats at level 1Bar = against every champion

Health640

Attack dmg56

Armor39

Magic resist32

Move speed335

Range175

// Skins

8 total · in-game view

// Playing them · playing against them

As Tahm Kench

Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!

Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.

Against Tahm Kench

When you see Tahm Kench use the shield from Thick Skin, remember that he just opted out of a good deal of healing. He will also not accumulate new gray health until Thick Skin comes off cooldown. Use this to your advantage!

Watch out for Kench's Abyssal Dive - you can cancel it's channel with immobilizing crowd control effects.

// Lore

Known by many names throughout history, the demon Tahm Kench travels the waterways of Runeterra, feeding his insatiable appetite with the misery of others. Though he may appear singularly charming and proud, he swaggers through the physical realm like a vagabond in search of unsuspecting prey. His lashing tongue can stun even a heavily armored warrior from a dozen paces, and to fall into his rumbling belly is to tumble into an abyss from which there is little hope of return.

// Worst matchupsAll →

Taric42.6%

Poppy44.4%

Renata Glasc45.2%

// More on Tahm Kench

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At a glance

Released: 9 July 2015
Price: 2,400 BE · 880 RP
Range: Melee
Adaptive type: Magic
Role: Warden
Positions: TopSupport

Basic attacksPlaystyleAbilities

Mode balance

ARAM · Damage taken +5%
URF · Damage dealt +20%
URF · Damage taken -15%

Ability details

Innate: Tahm Kench's basic attacks on-hit and are empowered to deal 5 – 60 for 12 (based on level) (+ 1.25% AP per 100 bonus health) (+ 4% of his bonus health) bonus magic damage and apply a stack of An Acquired Taste against enemy champions for 5 seconds, refreshing on subsequent hits and stacking up to 3 times. Stacks expire one by one every 0.67 seconds when the duration ends.
and gain additional effects against enemies with 3 stacks, consuming them all.

Targeting: Passive
Damage type: Magic

Notes

The passive bonus damage applies to turrets.
When An Acquired Taste is applied by , the damage is dealt as an additional instance of damage (as opposed to bonus damage when applied by basic attacks).
This causes effects like Bone Plating and Vile Decay to be applied twice.

This page uses material from the Tahm Kench article on the League of Legends Wiki, and that material is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Tahm Kench

// Abilities

An Acquired Taste

// Skins

How pros build Tahm Kench