Table of Contents

Pro's and Cons
Masteries
Runes
Abilities
Summoner Spells
Items
Teamfighting
Summary

Pros Good Lane Sustain Still Tanky AF Incredible 1v1 Capability. People won't focus on you even if you are the biggest threat, because of your tank. 300k Damage, 60k champion damage, is not unrealistic in a long game. Hybrid Damage, Half Magic, Half Physical - Makes you tough to be Tanked against.

Cons Can be a slow start in Jungle. Requires three finished items to reach maturity People will rage at you frequently for dominating their Fiora into the ground.

Starting with Cunning: Savagery for increased Early JG clear Runic Affinity Longer buffs Meditation Every bit of Mana regeneration helps your early game. Dangerous Game Mid/Late Game Sustain

Then Resolve: Unyielding : You are still a tank, but you don't stack armor or MR, so every little bit here helps your massive HP. Explorer : Get through the brush faster! Runic Armor : This is so OP on Tahm - It helps your regen, it helps your Thick Skin shield, it increases the Life Steal from Bork/Bloodthirster... Perseverance: +50% base health regen, on tahm kench. +200% when below 25% health... OP AF on Tahm. Swiftness : Stick like glue to your enemies, and slippery like Eel when you need to get away.

Attack Speed is King. The faster you attack, the faster you get stacks, the more you keep an enemy slowed, the faster you can stun, the faster you can Devour.

+29% Attack Speed to start the game helps clear camps with Krug buff. It helps apply stacks quickly in early fights. It means you deal physical and magic damage with each hit, faster than the other guy.

Cooldown Reduction: Getting Your Tongue Lash and Devourer more frequently. Getting your Abyssal Voyage more frequently. Take at least 6x Scaling CDR Glyphs and 3x Magic Resist Scaling Glyphs. You could easily make a case to take all 9x Scaling CDR Glyphs.

Greater Seal of Health x9 for Early survivability in the Jungle that also enhances Tahm Kench's ultimate synergy.

Early kills and Faster Camps are cleared with a combination of Devour & Tongue Lash. 2 & 2 by 5th. Max R asap always.

4/4/1/1 at 10th level. W max @ 13, Q @ 14.

a well-aimed Tongue Lash has deceptive range. I've used it to snipe Barons and Dragons. I've used it to snipe enemy champions as they are running away. It slows your enemy champions long enough to close range and hit them with a basic attack enhanced by Frozen Mallet.

Devour is your all-purpose skill. Great at taking a tanky CC champion like Nautilus out of a fight for 2 seconds so you can focus damage on the ADC, or great for swallowing up the DPS fountain ADC while finishing off the tanky CC'er. Hold it in reserve if not needed to finish/suppress an enemy champion, so you have it available to epic save your ally as necessary.

Flash: The mobility of Flash is just iconic.

Smite: Needed for clearing camps early, and getting Sated Devourer Late.

: 40% Attack Speed is the key here. The Magic damage is gravy. And after 30 monster/champion stacks you get phantom hit on every other attack, which is just amazing in conjunction with Devour's passive combined with Titanic/Ravenous Hydra. Every other hit applies your ult passive damage twice, and the damage from Titanic/Ravenous Hydra twice. O. M. G.

• : Speed. Tahm Kench is slooooow. Use these to get around, in and out of combat.
• : Synergizes well with your high HP. Great Lane clearing ability, you can split push lanes and towers down.
• : More HP. More Attack Damage. A passive that just makes you stick like glue to an enemy champion. No One is getting away from you, not even Singed.
• : Moar SPEEEED![/li]
  After Devourer + those three items, the next 2 items can totally be dependent on the type of enemy champions you are facing. Need MR but not HP? Wit's End Need more HP too? Spirit Visage
  Want more sustain because you are carrying that hard? Blade of the Ruined King + Hextech Gunblade. Need Armor because the enemy adc is fed too? Dead Man's Plate + Sunfire Aegis Facing a Darius/Garen/Vayne that does a lot of true damage and need raw HP? Warmog's Armor (x2, because why not?)
  

  Teamfighting

  
  Despite not being built to tank, you are still a tank. Thick Skin can allow you to wade straight into the teeth of battle, Tongue Lash tanky champs that are front liners, either to peel, or to initiate (and swallow) for removing them from the path of your assassin allies who can burn down the enemy ADC.
  
  If you are coming from another lane, Devour to the backline and Q-down the ADC, one (or two) AAs gets you to three stacks and you can devour to prevent more damage from coming out, or you can just AA them down if they are not a fountain of damage.
  
  Try to hold your Devour in reserve if you are confident you don't need it for an enemy champ, as saving your allies is typically more important than securing a kill. They will (usually) thank you for it, and generally speaking, since you don't have movement impairments with them in your belly, you can still get the kill anyway on that pesky ADC/Mid Laner.
  
  Remember, you can Devour with an Ally to get behind the enemy lines for double the trouble:
  
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  Summary

  
  
  Tahm Kench is incredibly fun to play, although getting the timing down on his combo can be a little tricky.
  
  I'm always open to suggestions/comments on how to properly format this guide, and tweaks to the build.
  
  Stay Hungry ,
  
  Dannar Hetoshi