Tahm Kench

The River King

TopPatch 16.18Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

47%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

236

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
47%47%111
Flash + Teleport
18%—43
Exhaust + Ghost
8.5%—20

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Shield, Health Potion
39%46%91
Doran's Shield, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
24%51%57
Doran's Helm, Health Potion
15%—35

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Heartsteel → Dusk and Dawn → Riftmaker
9.3%—22

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
46%44%108
Boots of Swiftness
28%55%66
Mercury's Treads
20%—48

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Tongue Lash → Abyssal Dive → Thick Skin

75%46%176

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W								W		W		W	W
E		E	E											E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Q › E › W16% of games— win

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 34,456 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.18 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.