Talk:Tahm Kench/@comment-25796537-20150910092904/@comment-25535822-20150915120150

Start devour(w) + flask and kill a jungle creep at 1:55, recall, tp to lane and that should be more then enough to get you through your first back until RoA. Level devour first because it has the greatest purpose in lane on different levels. One, it uses less mana per effect, two, it is AoE and does a crap load of indirect dmg to melee enemy champs, three, it does a crap load of dmg to champs period, four, you can bait and drag enemies into tower easier the higher level it is because you can walk further, five, better stronger ganks ( you can eat a jungler and run up faster to enemy to insta gib or hold enemy a long time for jungle to catch up), six the obvious, between Q and W, his devour get decreased CDR each level.

I promise you better success on maxing W first, any good top laner will hide behind minions which would force you out of position if you want to poke with Q while his W can do long range AoE which isn't easy to counter play against.

His Q has a decent ap ratio so it is acceptable to not level up and rely on his RoA early on for the difference in poke dmg. Depending on if you have a lead or not, you could build sorc boots or a mr/armor boot. He scales better off pene then ap if you want dmg so its something to think about.

O why does TK's W use less mana? because when you Q and W a minion, it only uses the mana cost of the Q, not W so you can remain highy cost effective on mana and clear waves easy/safely from a distance if your afraid of ganks.