Dusk and Dawn Tahm Kench Build

How it works

2. You build around high percentage health damage from your abilities and on-hit procs.
3. Dusk and Dawn gives an additional on-hit effect that scales your damage significantly.
4. Hextech Gunblade provides large Ability Power and a slow active to help land skillshots.
5. Abyssal Mask offers a cost-effective 12% magic damage increase aura around you.

1. Your An Acquired Taste (Passive) deals bonus magic damage on-hit scaling with health and AP.
2. Auto-attacks quickly stack An Acquired Taste (Passive) for Tongue Lash (Q) stuns or Devour (R) Devour while triggering Press the Attack.
3. Hextech Gunblade slow makes it effortless to land Tongue Lash (Q) and stick to targets.

Team Compositions & When to Build

2. Build this primarily when facing multiple tanks or bruisers where percentage health damage shines.
3. Ensure you have engage champions on your team, as diving in alone without frontline support will get you eliminated quickly.
4. If the entire enemy team is squishy, avoid this build.

Playstyle & Combos

2. Use Hextech Gunblade active to slow the enemy first, allowing you to land Thick Skin (E) more consistently.
3. Trigger Press the Attack quickly with auto-attacks and Tongue Lash (Q) to apply the 8% damage increase.

Items

2. Rush Dusk and Dawn first for the core on-hit scaling, followed by Hextech Gunblade and Abyssal Mask.
3. If enemy tanks build heavy Magic Resistance, rush Void Staff as your 4th item. Void Staff is preferred over Cryptbloom due to higher raw Ability Power.
4. If the enemy is not building Magic Resistance, build Rabadon's Deathcap before Void Staff.
5. In late game or when very rich, Abyssal Mask can be replaced with Shadowflame or other high-AP items.

Runes

2. Press the Attack is ideal for quick burst trades; Conqueror and Grasp of the Undying take too long to stack in all-in skirmishes.

Abyssal Dive (W)

1. Want to hit Abyssal Dive (W)? Face the other direction to mislead the enemy. They won't expect you using W on them.
2. You can cancel your Abyssal Dive (W) with Flash in case of emergency.
3. Hit Tongue Lash (Q) for slow or for stun first, then use Abyssal Dive (W) right away for certain hit.

Thick Skin (E)

1. If you know you will get alive, don't use Thick Skin (E). Let it heal you instead.

Devour (R)

1. Just ate enemy player? Don't spit him out immediately. Wait for your cooldown, your allies and their cooldowns as well. Ping them if needed.

Tahm Kench Combos

1. Combo #1: Tongue Lash (Q) + Devour (R) combo. If you have three stacks of your An Acquired Taste (Passive) on your target, you can eat them from a distance. During Tongue Lash (Q) animation use Devour (R).

1. You can farm minions very well with your Tongue Lash (Q). Low cooldown and big damage. Get these siege minions!
2. You can Tongue Lash (Q) + two autos + Tongue Lash (Q) + Devour (R) them from the distance.

1. Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
2. Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.