Support Matchup

Thresh vs Tahm Kench

Patch: 15.17 (25.17)
League: Platinum+
Thresh

Thresh

the Chain Warden
Support
Thresh Support Overall Win Rate
50.63%

Matchup Win Rate

51.8%
Thresh vs Tahm Kench Wins
⚔
48.2%
Tahm Kench vs Thresh Wins
Tahm Kench

Tahm Kench

The River King
Support
Tahm Kench Support Overall Win Rate
48.61%

Thresh vs Tahm Kench - Support Matchup Guide Patch 15.17 (25.17)

Thresh Support vs Tahm Kench Support - Who is stronger?

Thresh Support has an advantage against Tahm Kench (51.8% win rate) based on 1235 games. The matchup leans toward Thresh.

View detailed statistics below: items, runes, and counter builds for Thresh Support vs Tahm Kench Support in patch 15.17 (25.17), including win rates and pick rates. With proper study, this can improve your chances of victory up to 80.0% in this matchup.

Statistical Matchup Analysis

Thresh dominates the meta (1st most popular, 13.9% pick rate) and regularly clashes with Tahm Kench (2.5% pick rate). Understanding this common matchup forms the foundation of consistent gameplay for one of support's current powerhouses. Meta strength confirmed: Thresh's superior tier rating (A+ vs C) translates into a solid 51.8% matchup win rate. This performance explains why Thresh ranks 20th in win rate among Support champions. Optimize for consistency: Aftershock paired with Font of Life (73.2% win rate, 1.3% popularity) provides the stats you need, while the item sequence Locket of the Iron Solari > Frozen Heart > Knight's Vow with Boots of Swiftness delivers 80.0% win rate against Tahm Kench.

Total map control: Thresh dominates both the matchup and vision control (0.90 vs 0.84 wards/min). Your extra 0.06 wards/min create massive macro advantages for your entire team. Quality over quantity: Thresh wins through smart play rather than raw damage - despite lower DPS (364 vs 535/min), the 51.8% win rate shows superior utility, positioning, and team fight impact. Statistical dominance: Thresh leads in both matchup win rate (51.8%) and KDA (2.70 vs 2.40) - complete superiority across all metrics.

Thresh vs Tahm Kench - Support Stats Comparison

Thresh Support
Thresh Support		Versus
Tahm Kench Support
Tahm Kench Support
A+TierC
51.8%Matchup Winrate48.2%
50.63%Role Winrate48.61%
#20Winrate Rank#44
13.9%Pickrate2.5%
2.7Average KDA2.4
302Gold per Minute312
0.90Wards per Minute0.84
364Damage per Minute535

How to Beat Tahm Kench as Thresh (Support)

While statistically Thresh is slightly stronger than Tahm Kench as support, neither champion has an overwhelming advantage in this matchup. The winner is determined by player skill and understanding the intricacies of the confrontation. Studying this guide will improve your chances of success.

The magic damage that Thresh deals remains relevant in the late game. Look for opportunities to initiate or counter-initiate. Meanwhile, Tahm Kench deals primarily magic damage (70.43%), additional magic resistance may be required.

An important advantage of Thresh is superior vision control (ranked 14th among supports) (versus 30th for Tahm Kench), which provides better map control and safety for the team in important map areas. Meanwhile, their lower KDA (2.4 versus 2.7) suggests they are less effective in team fights.

Key aspects of the Thresh Support versus Tahm Kench Support matchup

Despite the statistical advantage in the matchup, overconfidence can be the main mistake. It is important for the Thresh player to maintain constant pressure on Tahm Kench, not allowing the opponent to safely scale up, and actively use the advantage gained to help their team.

Thresh vs Tahm Kench: Support Summoner Spells

Most Popular

Flash
Flash Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.
Ignite
Ignite Deals true damage over time to target enemy champion and reduces healing effects on them for the duration.
51.3% Win Rate79.9% Pick Rate

Highest Win Rate

Flash
Flash Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.
Heal
Heal Restores Health and grants Move Speed to you and target allied champion.
57.1% Win Rate3.2% Pick Rate

Thresh vs Tahm Kench: Support Runes

Most Frequent Runes

Primary Path
Resolve
Aftershock
Aftershock After immobilizing an enemy champion, increase your Armor and Magic Resist by 35 + 80% of your Bonus Resists for 2.5s. Then explode, dealing magic damage to nearby enemies.

Damage: 25 - 120 (+8% of your bonus health)
Cooldown: 20s

Resistance bonus from Aftershock capped at: 80-150 (based on level)

Aftershock

After immobilizing an enemy champion, increase your Armor and Magic Resist by 35 + 80% of…

Font of Life
Font of Life Impairing the movement of an enemy champion restores @BaseHeal@ Health to you and the lowest health nearby allied champion.

70% effect for Ranged Users.

Cooldown: 20s

Font of Life

Impairing the movement of an enemy champion restores @BaseHeal@ Health to you a…

Bone Plating
Bone Plating After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive from them deal 30-60 (based on level) less damage.

Duration: 1.5s
Cooldown: 55s

Bone Plating

After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you re…

Unflinching
Unflinching Gain 6 - 12 (level scaling) Armor and Magic Resist when crowd controlled and for 2 seconds after.

Unflinching

Gain 6 - 12 (level scaling) Armor and Magic Resist when crowd controlled and fo…

Secondary Path
Inspiration
Biscuit Delivery
Biscuit Delivery Biscuit Delivery: Gain a Total Biscuit of Everlasting Will every 2 mins, until 6 min.

Biscuits restore 12% of your missing health. Consuming or selling a Biscuit permanently increases your max health by 30.

Biscuit Delivery

Biscuit Delivery: Gain a Total Biscuit of Everlasting Will every 2 mins, until …

Cosmic Insight
Cosmic Insight +18 Summoner Spell Haste
+10 Item Haste

Cosmic Insight

+18 Summoner Spell Haste+10 Item Haste

Adaptive
Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force

Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force

Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Scaling Health
Scaling Health Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

Scaling Health

Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

52.9% Win Rate67.8% Pick Rate

Best Win Rate Runes

Primary Path
Resolve
Aftershock
Aftershock After immobilizing an enemy champion, increase your Armor and Magic Resist by 35 + 80% of your Bonus Resists for 2.5s. Then explode, dealing magic damage to nearby enemies.

Damage: 25 - 120 (+8% of your bonus health)
Cooldown: 20s

Resistance bonus from Aftershock capped at: 80-150 (based on level)

Aftershock

After immobilizing an enemy champion, increase your Armor and Magic Resist by 35 + 80% of…

Font of Life
Font of Life Impairing the movement of an enemy champion restores @BaseHeal@ Health to you and the lowest health nearby allied champion.

70% effect for Ranged Users.

Cooldown: 20s

Font of Life

Impairing the movement of an enemy champion restores @BaseHeal@ Health to you a…

Bone Plating
Bone Plating After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive from them deal 30-60 (based on level) less damage.

Duration: 1.5s
Cooldown: 55s

Bone Plating

After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you re…

Unflinching
Unflinching Gain 6 - 12 (level scaling) Armor and Magic Resist when crowd controlled and for 2 seconds after.

Unflinching

Gain 6 - 12 (level scaling) Armor and Magic Resist when crowd controlled and fo…

Secondary Path
Sorcery
Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.

After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.

Cooldown: 15 seconds

Manaflow Band

Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum ma…

Transcendence
Transcendence Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:
Level 5: +5 Ability Haste
Level 8: +5 Ability Haste
Level 11: On Champion takedown, reduce the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.

Transcendence

Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:Level 5: +5 Ability Haste Level…

Adaptive
Scaling Cooldown Reduction
Scaling Cooldown Reduction +8 Ability Haste

Scaling Cooldown Reduction

+8 Ability Haste

Scaling Health
Scaling Health Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

Scaling Health

Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

Scaling Health
Scaling Health Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

Scaling Health

Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

73.2% Win Rate1.3% Pick Rate

Thresh vs Tahm Kench: Support Item Builds

Most Popular Build

Starting Items
Stealth Ward
Stealth Ward (0 gold) Active (210 - 120s, max 2 charges)
Places an Invisible Stealth Ward that grants vision for 90-120 seconds.
World Atlas
World Atlas (400 gold)
Health Potion
Health Potion (50 gold) Consume
Restores 120 Health over 15 seconds.
51.5% Win Rate78.4% Pick Rate
Popular Boots
Boots of Swiftness
Boots of Swiftness (1000 gold) 60 Move Speed
Fleetfooted
Reduce the effectiveness of Slows by 25%.
50.0% Win Rate48.8% Pick Rate
Plated Steelcaps
Plated Steelcaps (1200 gold) 25 Armor
45 Move Speed
Plating
Reduces incoming damage from Attacks by 10%.
49.0% Win Rate13.0% Pick Rate
Symbiotic Soles
Symbiotic Soles (900 gold) 40 Move Speed
Voidborn
Gain Empowered Recall.
Symbiosis
After traveling 150000 units of distance, transform into Synchronized Souls.
58.1% Win Rate12.7% Pick Rate
Core Build
Kindlegem
Kindlegem (800 gold) 200 Health
10 Ability Haste
->
Locket of the Iron Solari
Locket of the Iron Solari (2200 gold) 200 Health
25 Armor
25 Magic Resist
10 Ability Haste
Devotion
Grant nearby allies a 200 - 360 Shield that decays over 2.5 seconds.
Knight's Vow
Knight's Vow (2300 gold) 200 Health
40 Armor
10 Ability Haste
100% Base Health Regen
Sacrifice
While near your Worthy ally, take 12% of the damage they receive and heal for 10% of the damage they deal to champions.Pledge (0s)
Designate an ally as Worthy.
Zeke's Convergence
Zeke's Convergence (2200 gold) 300 Health
25 Armor
25 Magic Resist
10 Ability Haste
Frostfire Tempest
Casting your Ultimate summons a storm around you for 5 seconds. The storm deals 30 magic damage per second to enemy champions and Slows them by 30%.
78.3% Win Rate11.6% Pick Rate
Final Build
Dead Man's Plate
Dead Man's Plate (2900 gold) 350 Health
55 Armor
4% Move Speed
Shipwrecker
While moving, build up to 20 bonus Move Speed. Your next Attack discharges built up Move Speed to deal bonus physical damage.
Unsinkable
Reduce the effectiveness of Slows by 25%.
0.0% Win Rate14.1% Pick Rate

Best Win Rate Build

Starting Items
Stealth Ward
Stealth Ward (0 gold) Active (210 - 120s, max 2 charges)
Places an Invisible Stealth Ward that grants vision for 90-120 seconds.
Control Ward
Control Ward (75 gold) Consume
Places a Control Ward that grants vision and reveals enemy Stealth Wards, traps and Camouflaged enemies.
World Atlas
World Atlas (400 gold)
80.1% Win Rate0.8% Pick Rate
Highest Winrate Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes
Sorcerer's Shoes (1100 gold) 12 Magic Penetration
45 Move Speed
98.1% Win Rate0.1% Pick Rate
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Ionian Boots of Lucidity (900 gold) 10 Ability Haste
45 Move Speed
Ionian Insight
Gain 10 Summoner Spell Haste.
61.4% Win Rate12.1% Pick Rate
Symbiotic Soles
Symbiotic Soles (900 gold) 40 Move Speed
Voidborn
Gain Empowered Recall.
Symbiosis
After traveling 150000 units of distance, transform into Synchronized Souls.
58.1% Win Rate12.7% Pick Rate
Core Build
Kindlegem
Kindlegem (800 gold) 200 Health
10 Ability Haste
->
Locket of the Iron Solari
Locket of the Iron Solari (2200 gold) 200 Health
25 Armor
25 Magic Resist
10 Ability Haste
Devotion
Grant nearby allies a 200 - 360 Shield that decays over 2.5 seconds.
Frozen Heart
Frozen Heart (2500 gold) 75 Armor
400 Mana
20 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress
Reduce the Attack Speed of nearby champions by 20%.
Knight's Vow
Knight's Vow (2300 gold) 200 Health
40 Armor
10 Ability Haste
100% Base Health Regen
Sacrifice
While near your Worthy ally, take 12% of the damage they receive and heal for 10% of the damage they deal to champions.Pledge (0s)
Designate an ally as Worthy.
80.0% Win Rate2.1% Pick Rate
Final Build
Zeke's Convergence
Zeke's Convergence (2200 gold) 300 Health
25 Armor
25 Magic Resist
10 Ability Haste
Frostfire Tempest
Casting your Ultimate summons a storm around you for 5 seconds. The storm deals 30 magic damage per second to enemy champions and Slows them by 30%.
0.0% Win Rate28.8% Pick Rate
Other Items
Abyssal Mask
Abyssal Mask (2650 gold) 350 Health
45 Magic Resist
15 Ability Haste
Unmake
Nearby enemy champions take 12% more magic damage.
0.0% Win Rate14.1% Pick Rate
Spirit Visage
Spirit Visage (2700 gold) 400 Health
50 Magic Resist
10 Ability Haste
100% Base Health Regen
Boundless Vitality
Heals and Shields on you are increased by 25%.
0.0% Win Rate14.0% Pick Rate

Thresh vs Tahm Kench: Support Skill (abilities) Orders

Most Frequent Skill Order

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Q
Q
Death Sentence Thresh binds an enemy in chains and pulls them toward him. Activating this ability a second time pulls Thresh to the enemy.
Q
Q
Q
Q
Q
W
W
Dark Passage Thresh throws out a lantern that shields nearby allied Champions from damage. Allies can click the lantern to dash to Thresh.
W
W
W
W
W
E
E
Flay Thresh's attacks wind up, dealing more damage the longer he waits between attacks. When activated, Thresh sweeps his chain, knocking all enemies hit in the direction of the blow.
E
E
E
E
E
R
R
The Box A prison of walls that slow and deal damage if broken.
R
R
R
Max Order: Q > E > W
51.2% Win Rate58.9% Pick Rate

Highest Win % Skill Order

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
R
Q
Death Sentence Thresh binds an enemy in chains and pulls them toward him. Activating this ability a second time pulls Thresh to the enemy.
Q
Q
Q
Q
Q
R
W
Dark Passage Thresh throws out a lantern that shields nearby allied Champions from damage. Allies can click the lantern to dash to Thresh.
W
W
W
W
W
R
E
Flay Thresh's attacks wind up, dealing more damage the longer he waits between attacks. When activated, Thresh sweeps his chain, knocking all enemies hit in the direction of the blow.
E
E
E
E
E
R
R
The Box A prison of walls that slow and deal damage if broken.
R
R
R
Max Order: Q > E > W
63.1% Win Rate0.8% Pick Rate

Thresh tips:

  • Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
  • Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
  • Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.

Playing 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.

Thresh Support other Matchups

Thresh
+6.4%
Fiddlesticks

Thresh vs Fiddlesticks

Thresh
+4.0%
Maokai

Thresh vs Maokai

Thresh
+3.5%
Elise

Thresh vs Elise

Thresh
+3.3%
Yuumi

Thresh vs Yuumi

Thresh
+2.5%
Poppy

Thresh vs Poppy

Thresh
+2.1%
Karma

Thresh vs Karma

Thresh
+2.1%
Shaco

Thresh vs Shaco

Thresh
+2.0%
Mel

Thresh vs Mel

Thresh
+1.8%
Sona

Thresh vs Sona

Thresh
+1.6%
Pyke

Thresh vs Pyke

Thresh
+1.6%
Bard

Thresh vs Bard

Thresh
+1.6%
Nautilus

Thresh vs Nautilus

Thresh
+1.2%
Senna

Thresh vs Senna

Thresh
+1.2%
Swain

Thresh vs Swain

Thresh
+1.2%
Xerath

Thresh vs Xerath

Thresh
+1.1%
Lulu

Thresh vs Lulu

Thresh
+1.1%
Pantheon

Thresh vs Pantheon

Thresh
+1.0%
Lux

Thresh vs Lux

Thresh
+0.5%
Alistar

Thresh vs Alistar

Thresh
+0.3%
Neeko

Thresh vs Neeko

Thresh
+0.0%
Blitzcrank

Thresh vs Blitzcrank

Thresh
-1.0%
Braum

Thresh vs Braum

Thresh
-1.1%
Leona

Thresh vs Leona

Thresh
-1.3%
Brand

Thresh vs Brand

Thresh
-1.5%
Renata Glasc

Thresh vs Renata Glasc

Thresh
-1.6%
Morgana

Thresh vs Morgana

Thresh
-1.7%
Rakan

Thresh vs Rakan

Thresh
-1.8%
Rell

Thresh vs Rell

Thresh
-2.0%
Zyra

Thresh vs Zyra

Thresh
-2.0%
Vel'Koz

Thresh vs Vel'Koz

Thresh
-2.3%
Nami

Thresh vs Nami

Thresh
-2.4%
Seraphine

Thresh vs Seraphine

Thresh
-2.9%
Milio

Thresh vs Milio

Thresh
-2.9%
Soraka

Thresh vs Soraka

Thresh
-3.3%
Zilean

Thresh vs Zilean

Thresh
-3.5%
Taric

Thresh vs Taric

Thresh
-3.5%
Janna

Thresh vs Janna