Talk:Tahm Kench/@comment-25280175-20150926141904/@comment-25967446-20150926214855

What Flameanator said but usually I would recommend rushing a catalyst first in lane before sunfire, gives you the mana sustain you need to keep up with your spell usage and the health plus your ult gives you a very sizable power spike. It's also cheaper to buy than sunfire so you get your spike earlier and you can just upgrade it to a righteous glory later on in the game.

In that particular matchup very early game you will struggle but after 6 and your first major buy (catalyst or sunfire). After 6 just farm and harass with your Q when ever the opportunity arises, even if you take a bit of retaliation in return so long as you keep your trade short and sweet you will have out traded her due to your sustain. Riven has poor innate sustain so any damage you get on her sticks unlike yours which gets healed up. When she gets 6 then only use your shield in response to her ultimate to block the execute (it's got a decently long cast time and is slow so you should be able to time it right with some practice). If you ever get into a proper fight with her then try to time your W with her Q so you eat her before she uses the 3rd one, if done right then her Q will in theory have timed out before you spit her out resulting in her losing a fair bit of cc and dps.

But don't let this experience ruin tahm top for you, it was a plat riven so you where put at quite the disadvantage from the beginning. Try it again and in theory with the tips you have gotten from here plus a hopefully nicer matchup and you will have a much more pleasant experience (also quick side note, before level 6 it's extremely difficult to last hit with tahm... So you will likely struggle with that which is fine, just do your best till 6 then you will be fine).