Tahm Kench

The River King

TopPatch 16.21Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

54%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

299

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
34%52%103
Flash + Teleport
23%49%69
Ghost + Ignite
13%—40

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Shield, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
36%54%109
Doran's Shield, Health Potion
35%54%106
Doran's Helm, Health Potion
11%—34

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Heartsteel → Dusk and Dawn → Riftmaker
8.4%—25
Heartsteel → Dusk and Dawn → Spirit Visage
5.4%—16

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
42%47%125
Boots of Swiftness
30%62%89
Mercury's Treads
18%55%53

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

78%54%233

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 › W13% 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 38,055 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.21 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.