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Tahm 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.

Abilities
An Acquired TastePC
Passive - An Acquired Taste

Innate: Tahm Kench's basic attacks on-hit and Tongue Lash are empowered to deal 6 - 42 (based on level) (+ 1.5% AP per 100 bonus health) (+ 4.5% of his bonus health) bonus magic damage and apply a stack of An Acquired Taste against enemy champions for 5 seconds, refreshing on subsequent hits and stacking up to 3 times. Stacks expire one by one every 0.67 seconds when the duration ends.

Tongue Lash and Devour gain additional effects against enemies with 3 stacks, consuming them all.

Tongue LashPC
Q - Tongue Lash
Cost: 50 / 46 / 42 / 38 / 34 Mana
CD: 7 / 6.5 / 6 / 5.5 / 5
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 900

Active: Tahm Kench lashes his tongue in the target direction that deals magic damage to the first enemy hit and slows them by 50% for 2 seconds. If this hits an enemy champion, Tahm Kench also heals himself.

Magic Damage: 75 / 120 / 165 / 210 / 255 (+ 100% AP) + [ An Acquired Taste 6 - 42 (based on level) (+ 1.5% AP per 100 bonus health) (+ 4.5% bonus health) ]
Heal: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 (+ 5 / 5.5 / 6 / 6.5 / 7% of missing health)

An Acquired Taste Bonus: The target is stun for 1.5 seconds. Devour can be cast during Tongue Lash at no cost to pull the target to Tahm Kench before swallowing them.

Tahm Kench is lockout to move, attack, or cast Abyssal Dive or Devour on a different target while his tongue is in flight. Tongue Lash's range and travel speed can be increased by Tahm Kench's size.

Abyssal DivePC
W - Abyssal Dive
Cost: 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 / 120 Mana
CD: 21 / 20 / 19 / 18 / 17
Cast Time: None
Range: 1000 / 1050 / 1100 / 1150 / 1200
Effect Radius: 275 / sight 200

Active: Tahm Kench channels for 1.35 seconds as he dives into the waters, then blink to the target location after a 0.15 -second delay and remains lockout for 0.65 seconds after the channel completes. Abyssal Dive grants sight of the area during the channel.

Magic Damage: 100 / 135 / 170 / 205 / 240 (+ 150% AP)
Cooldown Refund: 40 / 42.5 / 45 / 47.5 / 50%

Tahm Kench emerges to deal magic damage to nearby enemies, as well as airborne and stun them for 1 second. If this hits at least one enemy champion, 40% of Abyssal Dive's mana cost as well as a percentage of its cooldown are refunded.

Enemies can see the indicator for Tahm Kench's destination after he has channeled for 0.75 seconds.

Thick SkinPC
E - Thick Skin
CD: 3
Cast Time: 0.25

Passive: Tahm Kench stores a portion of the post-mitigation damage he takes as grey health on his health bar, increased while there are at least 2 nearby sight enemy champions either dead or alive. He can store up to 300% of his maximum health.

Damage Stored into Grey Health: 15 / 23 / 31 / 39 / 47%
Increased Damage Stored into Grey Health: 42 / 44 / 46 / 48 / 50%

While Thick Skin is not on cooldown, and after 4 seconds without taking damage, Tahm Kench rapidly consumes his grey health to restore 45 to 100% of the amount, healing for 10% of his maximum health every 0.25 .

Active: Tahm Kench converts his current grey health into a shield that lasts for 2.5 seconds.

DevourPC
R - Devour
Cost: 100 Mana
CD: 120 / 100 / 80
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 250

Active: Tahm Kench abducts the target champion, pulling them to him over the cast time and then swallowing them to carry them in his belly for up to 3 seconds. While inside, the target is attach to Tahm Kench and is rendered untargetable and displacement immune. Devour can be cast on enemies only with 3 stacks of An Acquired Taste.

Shield Strength: 650 / 800 / 950 (+ 100% AP)

If the target is an ally, they become lockout and are granted a shield, which decays in strength by 50 every 0.25 seconds after they are Regurgitate. Tahm Kench will also gain 40% bonus movement speed for 3 seconds and is unable to cast movement spells besides Abyssal Dive while an ally is inside of his belly.

After 1 second, Tahm Kench can cast Regurgitate while a target is inside of his belly, and automatically does so after the duration. The swallowed ally can also input a movement command to force Tahm Kench to cast Regurgitate in a target direction of their choice, unless they are immobilize.

An Acquired Taste Bonus: The target is suppression during Devour's cast time and while attached. Tahm Kench will also be grounded and slow by 40% under those same conditions.

If Tahm Kench is performing Abyssal Dive, Regurgitate will not automatically cast until after he finishes.

RegurgitatePC
R - Regurgitate
Cast Time: 0.25

Active: Tahm Kench detaches the swallowed champion from himself and airborne them out in the target direction. If they are an enemy, he deals magic damage to them at the end of the displacement.

Magic Damage: 100 / 250 / 400 (+ 15% (+ 7% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health)

If Regurgitate was cast automatically, Tahm Kench spits the target out in his facing direction.

Base Stats

Health: 640
Health Per Level: 103
Mana: 325
Mana Per Level: 50
Attack Damage: 56
AD Per Level: 3.2
Attack Speed: 0.658
AS Per Level: 2.5
Armor: 39
Armor Per Level: 4.7
Magic Resist: 32
MR Per Level: 2.05
Movement Speed: 335
Range: 175
Health Regen: 6.5
HP Regen Per Level: 0.55
Mana Regen: 8
Mana Regen Per Level: 1
Patch 25.20change

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.
Patch 25.S1.2nerf

Q damage decreased.

Tongue Lash

  • Base damage reduced to 75/120/165/210/255 from 80/130/180/230/280.
Patch 14.23nerf

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.
Patch 14.15change

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.
Patch 14.2change

Devour

  • Bug Fix: Targeting a champion with the ability no longer triggers Experimental Hexplate despite the ability not being cast yet.
Patch 13.22nerf

Passive bonus magic damage decreased.

An Acquired Taste

  • Health ratio reduced to 4% bonus health from 5%.
Patch 13.21buff

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.
Patch 13.12change

Urf Kench and Master Chef

  • An Acquired Taste
  • Bug Fix: Special animations when approaching enemies with three stacks of the effect have been restored.
Patch 13.5change

Devour

  • Bug Fix: Cast now properly triggers Radiant Virtue Guiding Light.
Patch 13.4change

Devour

  • Bug Fix: No longer causes an allied Goes Where He Pleases and Void Shift to be triggered by the ability.
Patch 12.23buff

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.
Patch 12.22change

Regurgitate

  • Bug Fix: VFX of some champions will no longer persist for a period of time after being spat out.
Patch 12.19buff

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.
Patch 12.18change

Abyssal Dive

  • Bug Fix: Knock up can no longer be cleansed from certain conditions.
Patch 12.11buff

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.
Patch 12.10change

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%.
Patch 12.8change

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.
Patch 12.7change

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.
Patch 12.6nerf

Devour

  • Removed: No longer renders the target vanish while they are swallowed.
  • It still grants them untargetability.
Patch 12.4change

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.
Patch 12.2buff

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.
Patch 11.20change

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.
Patch 11.17change

Devour

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the ultimate availability HUD indicator was not graying out after his ult was used.
Patch 11.16nerf

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.
Patch 11.14change

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%.
Patch 11.13change

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.
Patch 11.1nerf

Stats

  • Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
Patch 10.24change

Tongue Lash

  • Bug Fix: Now properly breaks Rift Scuttler shield when cast with Devour.
Patch 10.8change

Devour

  • Bug Fix: Ally clones will no longer take damage from it.
Patch 10.5change

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.
Patch 10.4change

Devour

  • Bug Fix: Champions will no longer be in a T-pose for the remainder of the game if they get eaten by Devour.
Patch 9.19change

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.
Patch 9.18change

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.
Patch 9.17change

Devour

  • Bug Fix: When he dies while using Devour on another unit, that unit's health can now properly go below 1 health.
Patch 9.16nerf

Stats

  • Base movement speed reduced to 335 from 345.

Thick Skin

  • Shield duration reduced to 2 seconds from 3.
Patch 9.14change

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.
Patch 9.12change

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%.
Patch 9.10change

Regurgitate

  • Bug Fix: Tooltip now properly displays its AP ratio.
Patch 9.9buff

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.
Patch 9.2buff

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.
Patch 8.24change

Devour

  • Bug Fix: SFX have fully been restored.
Patch 8.19change

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.
Patch 8.16change

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.
Patch 8.8nerf

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%.
Patch 8.7change

Urf Kench

  • Bug Fix: Seam lines have been minimized.
Patch 8.3change

Devour

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it failed to make devoured targets invulnerable to minion attacks.
Patch 7.20change

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.
Patch 7.16change

Master Chef

  • Bug Fix: Once again holds his knife and fork properly during all animations.
Patch 7.15change

Master Chef

  • Bug Fix: No longer clips through his body during several animations.
Patch 7.12change

Devour

  • Bug Fix: Can no longer Devour a summoned Rift Herald.
Patch 7.7change

Devour

  • Bug Fix: Is no longer able to Devour Red Brambleback or Blue Sentinel without first stacking his passive when enemy champions are nearby.
Patch 6.17change

Abyssal Voyage

  • Bug Fix: Now properly displays the ability description in Champion Select.
Patch 6.13change

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.
Patch 6.5change

Abyssal Voyage

  • Bug Fix: Can no longer cast while root.
Patch 6.4change

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.
Patch 6.2nerf

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).
Patch 5.24nerf

Devour

  • Removed: Bonus movement speed while moving away from enemy champions while holding an ally.
Patch 5.23nerf

Stats

  • Attack range reduced to 175 from 200.
Patch 5.18change

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.
Patch 5.17buff

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.
Patch 5.16buff

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.
Patch 5.14buff

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 %.
Patch 5.13new

Tahm Kench added to League of Legends