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Tahm Kench
GameplayTahm Kench is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Abilities[]
- Tongue Lash's range and speed scale 1:1 alongside any size modifiers to Tahm Kench, but will not be reduced below their base values if his overall size modifier is smaller than 100%.
- As the missile range and speed scale simultaneously, Tongue Lash will always take 0.33 seconds to reach its maximum range (no matter the cast range).
- Because of this, increasing Tahm Kench's size with items such as Elixir of Iron allows him to hit targets at even the same distance more quickly and giving them less time to dodge.
- Devour can be 'queued' at any point during Tongue Lash (including the wind-up animation) and will not go on cooldown if Tahm Kench fails to hit a valid target with Tongue Lash.
- All three An Acquired Taste stacks will be consumed even if Tongue Lash's stun is negated.
- This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the start of the cast time.
| Type | Cast time | |
|---|---|---|
| Attacking | Disabled | |
| Abilities | Disabled | |
| Movement | Disabled | |
| Items | Usable |  Shurelya's Battlesong  Youmuu's Ghostblade  Randuin's Omen
|
| Disabled | All the other item-actives are disabled | |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Consumables | Usable | |
| Spells | Usable |  Barrier  Clarity  Cleanse  Exhaust  Ghost  Heal  Ignite  Smite
|
| Disabled |  Flash  Teleport  Recall  Hexflash
| |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Interrupted by |  Resurrection
| |
- Ultra Rapid Fire differences edit
- Cooldown changed to 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 seconds.
- Tahm Kench is vanished (but does not become untargetable) during the 0.15 seconds delay.
- The following table refers for interactions while Tahm Kench is channeling:
| Type | Channel | |
|---|---|---|
| Attacking | Disabled | |
| Abilities | Disabled | |
| Movement | Disabled | |
| Items | Usable | Shurelya's Battlesong Youmuu's Ghostblade Randuin's Omen
|
| Disabled | All the other item-actives are disabled | |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Consumables | Usable | |
| Spells | Usable | Barrier Clarity Cleanse Exhaust Ghost Heal Ignite Smite
|
| Disabled | Teleport Recall Hexflash
| |
| Interrupted by | Flash
| |
| Interrupted by |  Grounding effects Immobilizing effects Cast-inhibiting effects
| |
- The following table refers for interactions while Tahm Kench is unable to act:
| Type | Channel | |
|---|---|---|
| Attacking | Disabled | |
| Abilities | Disabled | |
| Movement | Disabled | |
| Items | Usable | N/A |
| Disabled | All items are disabled | |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Consumables | Disabled | |
| Spells | Usable | Barrier Clarity Cleanse Exhaust Ghost Heal Ignite Smite
|
| Disabled | Flash Teleport Recall Hexflash
| |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Interrupted by | ||
- Thick Skin shield value and grey health percentage heal are both boosted by effects that increase heal and shield power. This means Tahm Kench can technically heal more than the normal amount of grey health and get a shield bigger than his maximum health.
- At level 18 Tahm Kench would need 53.8% heal power to heal for 100% of the damage he takes, reduced to 34.9% with Revitalize, 23.1% with Spirit Visage, and 6.9% with both.
- At level 18 Tahm Kench would need 53.8%
- Grey health converts all post-mitigation damage, Thick Skin effectively grants Tahm Kench a form of true damage mitigation.
- Grey health can temporarily exceed 100% of his missing health when Tahm Kench heals through other means with a grey health bar at 100%. In that case he will keep the higher grey health value for a few moments until it updates and removes the amount that he healed.
- Notes
- Devour will end prematurely under the following circumstances:
- The enemy target cleanses the suppression.
- Tahm Kench or his target dies.
- If he dies during the cast time, the target will be dealt Regurgitate's damage.
- If he dies during the cast time, the target will be dealt
- Tahm Kench enters resurrection.
- If he enters resurrection during the cast time, the target will be dealt Regurgitate's damage.
- If he enters resurrection during the cast time, the target will be dealt
- Tahm Kench or his target enters or leaves the Realm of Death.
- If the caster of that ability enters the realm, they will be Regurgitated instead.
- If the caster of that ability enters the realm, they will be
- The enemy target
- Devour cannot be used on allies that are channeling or using an ability that preloads UnstoppableForceMarker.
- Devour's swallow will be resisted by enemies that are displacement immune.
- The target becomes untargetable and displacement immune on-cast.
- Enemy targets will become suppressed on-cast.
- If the target cleanses the suppression during the cast time they will not be swallowed at the end of the cast time.
- If the target
- Enemy targets will become
- Swallowed enemy champions will receive the recast's damage regardless of how they exit.
- The self-slow is affected by slow resist.
- Tahm Kench cannot use gates during Devour.
- Allies can see if this spell is ready next to Tahm Kench's health bar.
- The swallowed target is not considered to be vanished. They are instead hidden underground to maintain ongoing effects such as Senna's Curse of the Black Mist.
- The following table refers for interactions while the target is unable to act:
| Attacking | Disabled | |
|---|---|---|
| Abilities | Disabled | |
| Movement | If an ally, forces Tahm Kench to use  Regurgitate unless movement commands are otherwise restricted. If an enemy, movement commands are disabled.
| |
| Items | Usable | N/A |
| Disabled | All items are disabled | |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Consumables | Disabled | |
| Spells | Usable | N/A |
| Disabled | Barrier Clarity Cleanse Exhaust Ghost Heal Ignite Smite Flash Teleport Recall Hexflash  Mark  Dash
| |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Interrupted by | ||
| Type | Cast time | |
|---|---|---|
| Attacking | Disabled | |
| Abilities | Disabled | |
| Movement | Disabled | |
| Items | Usable | N/A |
| Disabled | All items are disabled | |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Consumables | Disabled | |
| Spells | Usable | Barrier Clarity Cleanse Exhaust Ghost Heal Ignite Smite
|
| Disabled | Flash Teleport Recall Hexflash
| |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Interrupted by | Resurrection
| |
- Notes
- Regurgitate will also automatically cast if Tahm Kench or his target is affected by Fate's Call or his target enters resurrection.
- Tahm Kench becomes unable to act for 0.25 seconds upon casting Regurgitate.
Champion skins[]
- This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Tahm Kench (Collection).
Known by many names throughout history, the demon Tahm Kench travels the waterways of Runeterra, feeding his insatiable appetite with the misery of others. Though he may appear singularly charming and proud, he swaggers through the physical realm like a vagabond in search of unsuspecting prey. His lashing tongue can stun even a heavily armored warrior from a dozen paces, and to fall into his rumbling belly is to tumble into an abyss from which there is little hope of return.
Pat Duke
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Loot eligible
Patch history[]
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
- Abyssal Dive
- Devour
- Bug Fix: Aurora is no longer visible and in her default model pose while he is carrying her via Devour.
- Bug Fix:
- Devour
- Bug Fix: Targeting a champion with the ability no longer triggers Experimental Hexplate despite the ability not being cast yet.
- Bug Fix: Targeting a champion with the ability no longer triggers
- An Acquired Taste
- Health ratio reduced to 4% bonus health from 5%.
- An Acquired Taste
- Base damage changed to 6 − 48 (based on level) from 8 − 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 Tahm Kench
- 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's Guiding Light.
- Bug Fix: Cast now properly triggers
- Devour
- Bug Fix: No longer causes an allied Dr. Mundo's Goes Where He Pleases and Malzahar's Void Shift to be triggered by the ability.
- Bug Fix: No longer causes an allied
- 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 Regurgitated.
- 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.
- 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.
- V12.12 - June 30th Hotfix
- Stats
- Health growth reduced to 103 from 109.
- An Acquired Taste
- Health ratio reduced to 3% bonus health from 4%.
- 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 Sett's The Show Stopper, they no longer first reappear at the original Devour point before quickly sliding to the actual Regurgitate destination.
- Bug Fix: If cast on a target right before they stop being affected by
- 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 vanished while they are swallowed.
- It still grants them untargetability.
- Removed: No longer renders the target
- 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.
- Bug Fix: Can no longer sometimes be cast on enemy champions who had three stacks of an
- 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% − 100% (based on level) from 30% − 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's clone granted Tahm Kench vision of him for the rest of the game.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where using it on an enemy
- V11.17 - August 26th Hotfix
- Devour
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he would destroy self-targeted missiles.
- Devour
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the ultimate availability HUD indicator was not graying out after his ult was used.
- An Acquired Taste
- Base damage reduced to 8 − 60 (based on level) from 12 − 60 (based on level).
- Tongue Lash
- Base heal reduced to 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 from 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35.
- An Acquired Taste
- New Effect: Now has a base damage of 12 − 60 (based on level).
- Health ratio reduced to 2.5% bonus health from 2.5% maximum health.
- Previously granted 14.25 − 54.63 (based on level) damage from base health.
- Tongue Lash
- New Effect: Now applies An Acquired Taste's 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%.
- New Effect: Now applies
- 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%.
- V11.13 - Gameplay Update
- 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's damage.
- Hitting champions with 3 stacks still consumes all their stacks to stun them.
- Does not apply
- 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 channels for 1.35 seconds, and upon completion blinks 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 knocks them up and stuns 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 Devoured, but can still exit early at any time.
- Tahm Kench is unable to act 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.
- Swapped with
- 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 0.264 seconds from 12 − 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 vanished and unable to act, 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 immobilized or the recast is on cooldown.
- Tahm Kench is unable to cast movement spells and is slowed 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.
- Allies can exit at will by inputting a movement command, unless they're
- If the target is an enemy, they are suppressed for the duration and dealt 100 / 250 / 400 (+ 15% (+ 5% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health) magic damage after being spat out.
- Devour can only be cast on enemies with 3 stacks of An Acquired Taste, consuming the stacks in the process.
- Tahm Kench is grounded and slowed by 40% while an enemy is swallowed.
- Devour can only be cast on enemies with 3 stacks of
- Devour will not automatically recast while Tahm Kench is performing
- Recast: Tahm Kench spits the target out in the target direction.
- Cooldown: 120 / 100 / 80 seconds.
- Mana Cost: 100.
- Swapped with
- Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
- Tongue Lash
- Bug Fix: Now properly breaks Rift Scuttler's shield when cast with Devour.
- Bug Fix: Now properly breaks
- V10.4 - October 30th Hotfix
- Devour
- Bug Fix: Can no longer swallow faraway targets under certain circumstances.
- Regurgitate
- Undocumented: Spit out monsters now take the proper damage again.
- Undocumented: Spit out
- Thick Skin
- Undocumented: Now grants the shield at the start of the cast time again.
- Undocumented: Now grants the
- Devour
- Undocumented: Can now sucessfully cast when targeted at a location, when cast in combination with Tongue Lash and with no target around. May fizzle or successfully devour the last targeted unit.(bug)
- Undocumented: Can now sucessfully cast when targeted at a location, when cast in combination with
- Regurgitate
- Undocumented: Spit out monsters now take the splash damage, instead of the regurgitate damage.(bug)
- Undocumented: Now always regurgitates swallowed champions a fixed distance in the target direction rather than to the target location.(bug)
- Undocumented: Spit out
- Thick Skin
- Undocumented: Now grants the shield at the end of the cast time instead of at the start.(bug)
- Undocumented: Now grants the
- 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.
- Bug Fix: Cooldown is no longer halved when an allied champion stays inside his mouth for the full duration and no longer applies
- V10.4 - February 21st Hotfix
- Devour
- Bug Fix: Now properly spits out allies in front of him.
- Devour
- Bug Fix: Champions will no longer be in a T-pose for the remainder of the game if they get eaten by Devour.
- Thick Skin
- Grey health healed changed to 30% − 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.
- V9.14 - July 18th Hotfix
- An Acquired Taste
- Health ratio increased to 4% of his maximum health from 2.5%.
- Tongue Lash
- Cooldown reduced to 5 seconds at all ranks from 8 / 7.5 / 7 / 6.5 / 6.
- Slow increased to 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70% from 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%.
- 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 nearsighted when devoured.
- New Effect: Can now devour Blue Sentinel and Red Brambleback.
- Removed: Enemies are no longer
- 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.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where casting
- 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% (based on level).
- 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 slows for 95% and grounds 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.
- New Effect: Now
- 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.
- 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.
- Stats
- Base armor increased to 47 from 27.
- An Acquired Taste
- Damage per stack increased to 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 (based on level)% of his maximum health from 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 (based on level)%.
- 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.
- Removed:
- Master Chef Tahm Kench
- Bug Fix: Once again holds his knife and fork properly during all animations.
- Master Chef Tahm Kench
- Bug Fix: No longer clips through his body during several animations.
- Devour
- Bug Fix: Can no longer Devour a summoned Rift Herald.
- Bug Fix: Can no longer Devour a summoned
- Devour
- Bug Fix: Is no longer able to Devour Red Brambleback or Blue Sentinel without first stacking his passive when enemy champions are nearby.
- Bug Fix: Is no longer able to Devour
- Abyssal Voyage
- Bug Fix: Champion Select description display
- An Acquired Taste
- New Effect: Basic attacks and abilities deal 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 (based on level)% maximum health bonus magic damage, stacking up to 3 times against enemy champions
- Tongue Lash
- Base damage increased to 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 from 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260
- Thick Skin
- Grey Health generation reduced to 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90% damage taken from 100 at all ranks
- Heal increased to 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45% Grey Health from 20 / 26 / 32 / 38 / 44
- Active 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 2 / 4 / 6% bonus health bonus magic damage
- Channel duration reduced to 6 seconds from 15
- Second cast 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: Casting while rooted
- Tongue Lash
- Width reduced to 70 from 90
- Abyssal Voyage
- New Effect: Has a 1 second delay before second cast
- New Effect: Allies can still join Tahm Kench if they click him during second cast's animation
- An Acquired Taste
- Stack duration reduced to 5 seconds from 7
- Tongue Lash
- Hitbox indicator duration increased to match full animation length
- Devour
- Bug Fix: Cooldown and cost being refunded when targeting an enemy affected by spell immunity ( Black Shield, Riposte)
- Bug Fix: Cooldown and cost being refunded when targeting an enemy affected by spell immunity (
- Abyssal Voyage
- Passive bonus damage reduced to 2 / 4 / 6% bonus health from 4 / 6 / 8
- Devour
- Removed: Granting bonus movement speed when moving away from enemy champions while Tahm Kench holds an ally in his belly
- Stats
- Attack range reduced to 175 from 200
- Stats
- Mana regen increased to 8 from 5.5
- Tongue Lash
- Removed: Having to select target for Devour during cast time
- Removed: Having to select target for
- Devour
- New Effect: Casting during Tongue Lash causes Tahm Kench to automatically eat the target minion or monster (if hit)
- New Effect: Casting during
- Thick Skin
- New Effect: Grey Health bar has a colorblind variant
- An Acquired Taste
- Stack duration increased to 7 seconds from 5
- Devour
- Enemy champion regurgitate range increased to 200 from 100
- Stats
- Armor growth increased to 3.5 from 3.
- Devour
- New Effect: Prioritizes champions over minions.
- Regurgitate
- New Effect: Spat enemies are stunned for 0.25 seconds.
- Abyssal Voyage
- Warning particle for enemies updated to only appear during the 0.5 seconds delay.
- Tongue Lash
- Base damage increased to 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 from 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220.
- Abyssal Voyage
- Passive bonus damage increased to 4 / 6 / 8% bonus health from 4 / 5 / 6.
- Cooldown reduced to 120 / 110 / 100 seconds from 160 / 130 / 100.
- V5.13 - Added
- Stats
- Base health: 610
- Health growth: 95
- Base Mana: 325
- Mana growth: 40
- Base Attack Range: 200
- Base Movement Speed: 335
- Base attack damage: 56
- Attack damage growth: 3.2
- Base Attack Speed: 0,658
- Attack speed growth: 2.5
- Base health regen: 6.5
- Health regen growth: 0,55
- Base mana regen: 5.5
- Mana regen growth: 1
- Base armor: 27
- Armor growth: 3
- Base magic resistance: 32.1
- Magic resistance growth: 1.25
- An Acquired Taste
- Innate: Tahm Kench's basic attacks and damaging spells apply stacks of An Acquired Taste to enemy champions. At three stacks, Tongue Lash and Devour become empowered against that champion.
- Tongue Lash
- Active: Damage the first enemy hit for 80/115/150/185/220 (+.7 AP) magic damage and slow them by 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70% for 2 seconds. Champions with 3 stacks of An Acquired Taste will additionally be stunned for 1.5 seconds. Activate Devour while your tongue is in mid-air to devour monsters/minions from a distance.
- Target Range: 800.
- Mana Cost: 50.
- Cooldown: 6 seconds.
- Devour
- Active: Tahm Kench devours a target for 4/4.5/5/5.5/6s (half that for enemy champions.) Enemies are dealt 20 / 23 / 26 / 29 / 32% (+.02 AP)% of their maximum health as magic damage. (maximum of 400/450/500/550/600 against neutral monsters).
- Enemy Champions: Requires 3 stacks of An Acquired Taste to be devoured. While holding an enemy champion, Tahm Kench is slowed by 95%
- Allied Champions: While holding an allied champion, Tahm Kench gains 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% movement speed toward enemy champions (halved when not moving toward enemy champions).
- Minions and monsters: Reactivate to spit, dealing 100/150/200/250/300 (+0.6 AP) magic damage to targets hit.
- Target Range: 250.
- Mana Cost: 90.
- Cooldown: 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 seconds.
- Thick Skin
- Passive: While this spell is not cooling down, damage taken by Tahm Kench is converted to grey health. If allowed to decay, 20/26/32/38/44% of grey health will turn back into health.
- Active: Convert all of your grey health into a shield that lasts 6 seconds, but falls off gradually over that time.
- Mana Cost: 50.
- Cooldown: 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 seconds.
- Abyssal Voyage
- Passive: Tahm Kench's basic attacks and damaging spells deal an additional (20 + 4/5/6% of Tahm Kench's bonus health) magic damage
- Active: Tahm Kench's begins to channel for up to 15 seconds. During this time, one ally champion can right click Tahm Kench to join in. Alternatively, reactivate this ability to travel alone. On reactivation or once an ally has opted in, Tahm travels to the target location. Incoming champion damage breaks the channel.
- Target Range: 5000/5500/6000.
- Mana Cost: 100.
- Cooldown: 160 / 130 / 100 seconds.
Trivia[]
- Tahm Kench is one of the few champions who can apply crowd control on themselves (the others being Blitzcrank, Caitlyn, Lissandra, Rumble, Sion, Varus, Vi, Vel'Koz, Xerath, and Ziggs).
- At first it was thought the gambler and his bride were Tobias and Evelynn ( Twisted Fate's cards went blank and featured an unknown cursive script in his official champion page; however, Twisted Fate and the original Tahm Kench, whose identity the malevolent River King usurped, are not the same.[2]
- Tahm Kench's dance has him play the tune he hums in 'The River King' with his tongue ( Rift Scuttler will join him if he dances near her).
- Tahm Kench's design and playstyle may be loosely based on the Banderhobb, a toad-like creature from the Forgotten Realms universe which kidnaps unsuspecting victims by swallowing them alive and carrying them to its master's lair.
- In VALORANT on the Ascent map (Mid Bottom), there is a park bench crafted with his likeness. This is most likely a reference to the "Unbench the Kench" meme.
See also[]
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