PCTahm Kench
Tank / Support
League of Legends (PC)
Tahm Kench was last adjusted in Patch 25.20 (). Across 63 patches, Tahm Kench has received 10 buffs, 11 nerfs, 41 adjustments since release in Patch 5.13.
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Devour
- Bug Fix: No longer grants Tahm Kench the effects of Cloud Dragon Soul upon using the ability on any target to acquire them (i.e. even on targets who are out of range) instead of upon the ability being cast.
Q damage decreased.
Tongue Lash
- Base damage reduced to 75/120/165/210/255 from 80/130/180/230/280.
Passive and R AP scaling decreased.
An Acquired Taste
- AP ratio reduced to 1.5% AP per 100 bonus health from 2% AP per 100 bonus health.
Devour
- Shield AP ratio reduced to 100% AP from 150% AP.
Abyssal Dive
- Bug Fix: Aurora is no longer visible and in her default model pose while he is carrying her via Devour.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Aurora is no longer visible and in her default model pose while he is carrying her via Devour.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Targeting a champion with the ability no longer triggers Experimental Hexplate despite the ability not being cast yet.
Passive bonus magic damage decreased.
An Acquired Taste
- Health ratio reduced to 4% bonus health from 5%.
Passive Bonus Magic Damage decreased. W Cooldown refund increased.
An Acquired Taste
- Base damage changed to 6 to 48 (based on level) from 8 to 60 (based on level).
- Health ratio increased to 5% bonus health from 3%.
Abyssal Dive
- Cooldown refund increased to 40/42.5/45/47.5/50% from 40% at all ranks.
Urf Kench and Master Chef
- An Acquired Taste
- Bug Fix: Special animations when approaching enemies with three stacks of the effect have been restored.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Cast now properly triggers Radiant Virtue Guiding Light.
Devour
- Bug Fix: No longer causes an allied Goes Where He Pleases and Void Shift to be triggered by the ability.
Passive AP damage added. Q AP ratio increased, self heal increased. W AP ratio increased. E gray health increased. R AP scaling increased, shield decay adjusted.
An Acquired Taste
- New Effect: Damage now scales with 2% AP per 100 bonus health.
Tongue Lash
- Damage AP ratio increased to 100% AP from 90% AP.
- Heal health ratio increased to 5/5.5/6/6.5/7% missing health from 3/3.5/4/4.5/5%.
Abyssal Dive
- AP ratio increased to 150% AP from 125% AP.
Thick Skin
- Damage stored increased to 15/23/31/39/47% from 13/21/29/37/45%.
- Damage stored near multiple enemies increased to 42/44/46/48/50% from 40/42.5/45/47.5/50%.
Devour
- Removed: Shield duration no longer ends after 2.5 seconds.
- New Effect: Shield strength now decays by 50 every 0.25 seconds after the target is Regurgitate.
Regurgitate
- AP ratio increased to 7% per 100 AP from 5% per 100 AP.
Regurgitate
- Bug Fix: VFX of some champions will no longer persist for a period of time after being spat out.
Q AP ratio increased. W AP ratio increased.
Tongue Lash
- AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 70% AP.
Abyssal Dive
- AP ratio increased to 125% AP from 100% AP.
Abyssal Dive
- Bug Fix: Knock up can no longer be cleansed from certain conditions.
Passive magic damage on-hit increased. Q heal increased. R shield strength increased.
An Acquired Taste
- Health ratio increased to 4% bonus health from 2.5%.
Tongue Lash
- Base heal increased to 10/15/20/25/30 from 10/12.5/15/17.5/20.
Devour
- Base shield increased to 650/800/950 from 500/700/900.
Stats
- Base health increased to 640 from 570.
- Health growth increased to 109 from 95.
- Armor growth increased to 4.7 from 3.5.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
Tongue Lash
- Base heal reduced to 10/12.5/15/17.5/20 from 10/15/20/25/30.
- Heal health ratio reduced to 3/3.5/4/4.5/5% missing health from 4/4.5/5/5.5/6%.
Thick Skin
- Damage stored reduced to 13/21/29/37/45% from 15/25/35/45/55%.
- Damage stored near multiple enemies reduced to 40/42.5/45/47.5/50% from 45/50/55/60/65%.
Devour
- Bug Fix: If cast on a target right before they stop being affected by The Show Stopper, they no longer first reappear at the original Devour point before quickly sliding to the actual Regurgitate destination.
Devour
- Bug Fix: If the caster used it on an allied champion that was within a brush, the target no longer becomes invisible after being spat out.
Devour
- Removed: No longer renders the target vanish while they are swallowed.
- It still grants them untargetability.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Can no longer sometimes be cast on enemy champions who had three stacks of an An Acquired Taste which expired but the caster used certain item actives.
Q slow increased. E adjusted; damage stored as grey health decreased (unless near multiple enemies). R ally shield increased; now grants move speed upon devouring ally.
Tongue Lash
- Slow increased to 50% from 40%.
Thick Skin
- Damage stored as grey health reduced to 15/25/35/45/55% from 45/50/55/60/65%.
- New Effect: Damage stored as grey health is now increased to 45/50/55/60/65% if he is near at least 2 visible enemy champions (dead or alive).
- Damage healed increased to 45 to 100% (based on level) from 30 to 100% (based on level).
Devour
- Base shield increased to 500/700/900 from 400/500/600.
- Shield AP ratio increased to 150% AP from 100% AP.
- Removed: Devouring an ally no longer slows him by 30/20/10%.
- New Effect: Now gains 40% bonus movement for 3 seconds if he devours an ally.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where using it on an enemy Wukong clone granted Tahm Kench vision of him for the rest of the game.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the ultimate availability HUD indicator was not graying out after his ult was used.
Passive base damage decreased early. Q base heal decreased.
An Acquired Taste
- Base damage reduced to 8 to 60 (based on level) from 12 to 60 (based on level).
Tongue Lash
- Base heal reduced to 10/15/20/25/30 from 15/20/25/30/35.
Passive bonus damage now scales. Q now deals Passive damage to enemy champions; heal scaling updated. W cooldown refund bugfix; cooldown and mana cost refund increased. R base shield increased early; ally self slow decreased early.
An Acquired Taste
- New Effect: Now has a base damage of 12 to 60 (based on level).
- Health ratio reduced to 2.5% bonus health from 2.5% maximum health.
- Previously granted 14.25 to 54.625 (based on level) damage from base health.
Tongue Lash
- New Effect: Now applies An Acquired Taste damage.
- New Effect: Now has a base heal of 15/20/25/30/35.
- Heal health ratio reduced to 4/4.5/5/5.5/6% missing health from 6/7/8/9/10%.
Abyssal Dive
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where its cooldown refund would not scale with ability haste.
- Cooldown refund increased to 40% from 30%.
- Mana cost refund increased to 40% from 30%.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he could Devour an enemy without full stacks of An Acquired Taste if he queued the spell before the stacks fell off.
- Base shield increased to 400/500/600 from 300/450/600.
- Ally self slow reduced to 30/20/10% from 40/25/10%.
Devour and R swapped and reworked. Passive bonus damage decreased. Q now heals, applies his passive, and scales with his size. E shield duration increased; healing over time increased but takes longer to come into effect. And new VFX all around!
Stats
- Base health reduced to 570 from 600.
- Health growth reduced to 95 from 100.
- Mana growth increased to 50 from 40.
- Base armor reduced to 42 from 47.
An Acquired Taste
- Health ratio reduced to 2.5% maximum health from 4%.
Tongue Lash
- Cooldown increased to 7/6.5/6/5.5/5 seconds from 5 at all ranks.
- Mana cost reduced to 50/46/42/38/34 from 50 at all ranks.
- Undocumented: Range reduced to 900 from 930.
- Slow changed to 40% at all ranks from 30/40/50/60/70%.
- Slow duration reduced to 2 seconds from 3.
- Stun duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2.
- New Effect: Now applies a stack of An Acquired Taste against champions.
- Does not apply An Acquired Taste damage.
- Hitting champions with 3 stacks still consumes all their stacks to stun them.
- New Effect: Range and missile speed now scales up with his size.
- New Effect: Now heals for 6/7/8/9/10% missing health upon hitting enemy champions.
- New Effect: Can now Devour enemy champions with three stacks of An Acquired Taste if Tongue Lash hits them.
- Removed: Can no longer activate Devour to eat minions or jungle monsters.
Abyssal Dive (W)
- Swapped with Devour.
- Renamed to Abyssal Dive from Abyssal Voyage.
- Active: Tahm Kench channel for 1.35 seconds, and upon completion blink to the target location after a 0.15-second delay. Upon arrival, he deals 100/135/170/205/240 (+ 100% AP) magic damage to nearby enemies and airborne and stun them for 1 second. Hitting at least 1 enemy champion refunds 30% of the cooldown and mana cost.
- Enemies can see the indicator of this ability after he has channeled for 0.75 seconds.
- Allies may travel with Tahm if they are Devour, but can still exit early at any time.
- Tahm Kench is lockout for 0.65 seconds after the end of the channel.
- Cooldown: 21/20/19/18/17 seconds.
- Mana Cost: 60/75/90/105/120.
- Cast Range: 1000/1050/1100/1150/1200.
Thick Skin
- Grey health timer increased to 4 seconds from 2.5.
- Shield duration increased to 2.5 seconds from 2.
- New Effect: Grey health is now capped at 300% maximum health.
- Healing changed to 10% maximum health per 0.25 from 12 to 209 (based on level) per 0.8 seconds.
Devour (R)
- Swapped with Abyssal Voyage.
- Active: Tahm Kench swallows the target champion for up to 3 seconds, rendering them vanish and lockout, as well as granting them displacement immunity for the duration. Devour can be recast after 1 second, and does so automatically at the end of the duration.
- Devour will not automatically recast while Tahm Kench is performing Abyssal Dive, and will instead do so after he has finished.
- If the target is an ally, they are granted a 300/450/600 (+ 100% AP) shield for 2.5 seconds, refreshing after being spat out.
- Allies can exit at will by inputting a movement command, unless they're immobilize or the recast is on cooldown.
- Tahm Kench is unable to cast movement spells and is slow by 40/25/10% while an ally is swallowed, but may still cast Abyssal Dive.
- Allies can see if this spell is ready next to his health bar.
- If the target is an enemy, they are suppression for the duration and dealt 100/250/400 (+ 15% (+ 5% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health) magic damage after the displacement ends.
- Devour can only be cast on enemies with 3 stacks of An Acquired Taste, consuming the stacks in the process.
- Tahm Kench is ground and slow by 40% while an enemy is swallowed.
- Recast: Tahm Kench airborne the target out in the target direction.
- Cooldown: 120/100/80 seconds.
- Mana Cost: 100.
Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
Tongue Lash
- Bug Fix: Now properly breaks Rift Scuttler shield when cast with Devour.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Ally clones will no longer take damage from it.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Cooldown is no longer halved when an allied champion stays inside his mouth for the full duration and no longer applies An Acquired Taste damage twice.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Champions will no longer be in a T-pose for the remainder of the game if they get eaten by Devour.
E’s Grey Health heal now scales.
Thick Skin
- Grey health healed changed to 30 to 100% (based on level) from 75% at all levels.
Abyssal Voyage
- Bug Fix: Allies on their way to enter Abyssal Voyage will no longer be stuck when Tahm Kench is hit by an enemy.
Devour
- Bug Fix: When he dies while using Devour on another unit, that unit's health can now properly go below 1 health.
Stats
- Base movement speed reduced to 335 from 345.
Thick Skin
- Shield duration reduced to 2 seconds from 3.
An Acquired Taste
- Removed: Abilities no longer deal bonus magic damage based on passive stacks.
- Removed: Abilities no longer apply An Acquired Taste stacks.
- Health ratio changed to 2.5% of his maximum health at any stack from 1.5/3/4.5% (based on stacks).
Tongue Lash
- Cooldown increased to 8/7.5/7/6.5/6 seconds from 8/7/6/5/4.
- Removed: No longer hits enemies in an arc in front of him on cast.
- New Effect: Now consumes all stacks of An Acquired Taste upon stunning an enemy.
- Slow reduced to 30/35/40/45/50% from 50/55/60/65/70%.
- Slow duration increased to 3 seconds from 2.
- Stun duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.5.
Devour
- Removed: Enemies are no longer nearsight when devoured.
- New Effect: Can now devour Blue Sentinel and Red Brambleback.
Regurgitate
- Target's health ratio changed to 11% of target's maximum health at all ranks from 9/10/11/12/13%.
- Maximum monster damage changed to 500 at all ranks from 400/450/500/550/600.
- Removed: Enemies are no longer stunned for 0.25 seconds after being devoured.
Thick Skin
- Damage stored as grey health reduced to 45/50/55/60/65% from 80/85/90/95/100%.
- Grey health healed increased to 75% at all ranks from 20/25/30/35/40%.
- Cooldown reduced to 3 seconds from 6.
- New Effect: Cooldown now starts on shield destruction or expiration from on cast.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where casting Tongue Lash during Devour against non-champions would have no mana cost.
- New Effect: Allies can no longer release themselves from Devour early while affected by immobilizing crowd control.
Regurgitate
- Champion regurgitate lockout time after animation reduced to 0.25 seconds from 1.
- Allied champion regurgitate range reduced to 250 units from 400.
- Regurgitate base damage reduced to 60/105/150/195/240 from 100/135/170/205/240.
- Regurgitate health ratio increased to 9/10/11/12/13% of target's maximum health from 5/7/9/11/13%.
Regurgitate
- Bug Fix: Tooltip now properly displays its AP ratio.
Stats
- Base health increased to 600 from 540.
- Health growth reduced to 100 from 102.
- Base movement speed increased to 345 from 335.
An Acquired Taste
- Bonus magic damage changed to 1.5% of his maximum health at all levels from 1.25/1.5/1.75%.
Tongue Lash
- Slow duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.5.
- Cooldown changed to 8/7/6/5/4 seconds from 5 at all ranks.
- Missile range increased to 900 units from 800.
- Slow strength increased to 50/55/60/65/70% from 30/40/50/60/70%.
Devour
- New Effect: Now slow for 95% and ground Tahm Kench if he devours an allied champion.
- New Effect: Now refunds 50% of its mana cost on devouring an enemy.
- Mana cost increased to 100 from 60.
- Cooldown changed to 20 seconds at all ranks from 28/25/22/19/16.
- Projectile base damage reduced to 100/135/170/205/240 from 100/150/200/250/300.
- Regurgitate damage changed to 100/135/170/205/240 (+ 5/7/9/11/13% (+ 2% per 100 AP) of target's maximum health) from 20/23/26/29/32% (+ 2% per 100 AP) of target's maximum health.
Thick Skin
- Percent of grey health converted into healing increased to 20/25/30/35/40% from 15/20/25/30/35%.
- Damage converted to grey health increased to 80/85/90/95/100% from 70/75/80/85/90%.
- Mana cost reduced to 0 from 50.
Abyssal Voyage
- Range changed to 2500/5500/8500 units from 4500/5500/6500.
- Cooldown increased to 140/130/120 seconds from 120/110/100.
Allies in combat with champions can no longer jump into R.
Abyssal Voyage
- New Effect: Allies in combat with enemy champions can no longer jump into Abyssal Voyage.
Devour
- Bug Fix: SFX have fully been restored.
Stats
- Base health reduced to 540 from 610.
- Health growth increased to 102 from 95.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Allies Tahm Kench has devoured will no longer sometimes be targetable when first swallowed.
Tongue Lash
- Slow duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2.
- Cooldown reduced to 5 seconds from 6.
Devour
- Devour duration reduced to 4 seconds at all ranks from 4/4.5/5/5.5/6.
- Enemy devour duration reduced to 2 seconds at all ranks from 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3.
- Cooldown increased to 28/25/22/19/16 seconds from 14/13/12/11/10.
- New Effect: Refunds 50% of its cooldown if cast against an enemy.
- Mana cost reduced to 60 from 90.
Devour
- Removed: 15/17.5/20/22.5/25% bonus movement speed with an ally in his belly when moving towards enemy champions.
Thick Skin
- Health restored from grey health reduced to 15/20/25/30/35% from 25/30/35/40/45%.
Urf Kench
- Bug Fix: Seam lines have been minimized.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it failed to make devoured targets invulnerable to minion attacks.
An Acquired Taste
- Damage per stack increased to 1.25/1.5/1.75 (at level 1/7/13)% of his maximum health from 1/1.25/1.5 (at level 1/11/16)%.
Devour
- Regurgitation lockout reduced to 1 second from 2.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug with the Tongue Lash and Devour combo where, if Tongue Lash dealt enough damage to kill the target minion, regurgitating the minion wouldn't do anything.
Abyssal Voyage
- Removed: Devour being locked out for 1 second after teleporting.
Master Chef
- Bug Fix: Once again holds his knife and fork properly during all animations.
Master Chef
- Bug Fix: No longer clips through his body during several animations.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Can no longer Devour a summoned Rift Herald.
Devour
- Bug Fix: Is no longer able to Devour Red Brambleback or Blue Sentinel without first stacking his passive when enemy champions are nearby.
Abyssal Voyage
- Bug Fix: Now properly displays the ability description in Champion Select.
An Acquired Taste
- New Effect: Attacks and spells deals 1/1.25/1.5 (at level 1/11/16)% of Tahm Kench's maximum health bonus magic damage, stacking up to 3 times against champions.
Tongue Lash
- Base damage increased to 80/130/180/230/280 from 80/125/170/215/260.
Thick Skin
- Damage to grey health conversion ratio reduced to 70/75/80/85/90% from 100% at all ranks.
- Grey health to health conversion ratio increased to 25/30/35/40/45% from 20/26/32/38/44%.
- Active's shield duration reduced to 3 seconds from 6.
- Cooldown reduced to 6 seconds at all ranks from 16/15/14/13/12.
- Removed: Shield decaying over time.
Abyssal Voyage
- Removed: Passive bonus magic damage. Reintegrated into Innate ability.
- Channel duration reduced to 6 seconds from 15.
- Reactivate delay reduced to 0.25 seconds from 1.
- Warning indicator duration reduced to 1 second from 1.5.
- Range increased to 4500/5500/6500 from 4000/5000/6000.
Abyssal Voyage
- Bug Fix: Can no longer cast while root.
Tongue Lash
- Missile width reduced to 70 from 90.
Abyssal Voyage
- New Effect: Now has a 1-second delay before being able to re-activate.
- New Effect: While Tahm Kench performs his re-activation's animation, allies can still click him to join his voyage.
An Acquired Taste
- Stack duration reduced to 5 seconds from 7.
Tongue Lash
- Clarity: The tongue hitbox indicator now lasts longer (until the tongue finishes lashing out).
Devour
- Bug Fix: Devour would refund its cooldown and mana cost if cast on a target that was spell-immune (Black Shield, Riposte, etc.).
Abyssal Voyage
- Bonus health ratio reduced to (+ 2/4/6% bonus health) from (+ 4/6/8% bonus health).
Devour
- Removed: Bonus movement speed while moving away from enemy champions while holding an ally.
Stats
- Attack range reduced to 175 from 200.
Tongue Lash
- Smoothed out the interaction between the Tongue Lash + Devour combo for normal cast. Now, casting Devour at any point while the tongue is mid-air will allow you to eat a monster or minion from a distance instead of needing to left-click devour mid-lash.
Thick Skin
- Grey health now has a colorblind variant.
An Acquired Taste
- Duration of debuff when applied by basic attacks increased to 7 seconds from 5.
Devour
- Enemy champion regurgitate range increased to 200 from 100.
General
- Armor growth increased to 3.5 from 3.
- Now prioritizes champions over minions.
- Enemies regurgitated are now stunned for 0.25 seconds.
- Warning particle for enemies now only appears during the 0.5 second delay.
Tongue Lash
- Base damage increased to 80/125/170/215/260 from 80/115/150/185/220.
Abyssal Voyage
- Cooldown reduced to 120/110/100 seconds from 160/130/100.
- Passive health ratio increased to 4/6/8 % from 4/5/6 %.
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