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Tahm Kench S Tier ARAM Mayhem Build

Tahm Kench · The River King

TankSupport 52.62% WR 11.92% PR Patch: 26.13

Damage Received +5%

Tahm Kench is S tier in ARAM: Mayhem patch 26.13 with a 52.62% win rate. This guide covers their ARAM build, augment picks, and Mayhem-specific synergies.

Best Augments for Tahm Kench

Infinite Recursion 62.10%

Tank Engine 67.40%

Quest: Steel Your Heart 65.30%

Heavy Hitter 63.49%

Slap Around 54.27%

Augment Combos for Tahm Kench

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5 combos

Tahm's autos and Q proc bonus damage based on max HP — with hexes you reach absurd resists and HP. He doesn't lack damage; just build 6 tank items.

Quest: Steel Your Heart S

Use Mayhem's infinite HP stacking with Rift Maker to convert HP into AP; with Adapt enabled, Overlord's Bloodmail works too.

For Mejai's stack lineups — Heartsteel + Goliath/Tank Engine makes tongue reach across the screen, Q chunks stack-snipers half HP. Since stacks are plentiful, don't aggressively stack HP — Heartsteel is just for size.

Fan The Hammer A

Damage is huge but fragile.

Ethereal Weapon C TechFun

With Duskblade, a single Q stacks 3 passive layers.

Tahm Kench ARAM Mayhem Build & Augments

Mayhem-specific augment picks, synergies, and meta data for Tahm Kench in patch 26.13.

Skill Priority

Data date: 20260701

Q>E>W Pick Rate: 38.17% Win Rate: 48.92%

Q W E Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 12.74% Win Rate: 48.96%

Q W E Q Q R Q W Q E R E E E W Pick Rate: 1.52% Win Rate: 49.15%

E W Q Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 1.48% Win Rate: 48.89%

Q>W>E Pick Rate: 27.96% Win Rate: 49.21%

Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R W W E E Pick Rate: 9.81% Win Rate: 49.49%

Q W E Q Q R Q E Q W R W W W E Pick Rate: 1.27% Win Rate: 49.45%

Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R E W W E Pick Rate: 1.09% Win Rate: 49.26%

E>Q>W Pick Rate: 12.08% Win Rate: 48.83%

Q W E E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 4.15% Win Rate: 48.89%

E W Q E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.48% Win Rate: 49.02%

Q W E Q E R E E E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.43% Win Rate: 48.61%

Starting Items

Pick Rate: 96.12% Win Rate: 49.78%

Pick Rate: 69.39% Win Rate: 50.38%

Unending Despair

Pick Rate: 60.50% Win Rate: 48.38%

Pick Rate: 32.02% Win Rate: 46.56%

Pick Rate: 30.79% Win Rate: 43.69%

Boots

Mercury's Treads

Pick Rate: 41.14% Win Rate: 49.62%

Boots of Swiftness

Pick Rate: 0.94% Win Rate: 54.09%

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Pick Rate: 2.09% Win Rate: 53.00%

Berserker's Greaves

Pick Rate: 0.53% Win Rate: 53.69%

Core Builds

Unending Despair

Pick Rate: 17.19% Win Rate: 49.38%

Unending Despair

Pick Rate: 13.64% Win Rate: 50.58%

Unending Despair

Pick Rate: 6.19% Win Rate: 46.49%

Unending Despair

Pick Rate: 5.28% Win Rate: 45.07%

Pick Rate: 5.16% Win Rate: 55.03%

Late-Game Builds

Pick Rate: 53.98% Win Rate: 52.84%

Tear of the Goddess

Pick Rate: 2.39% Win Rate: 50.72%

Pick Rate: 12.59% Win Rate: 50.14%

Pick Rate: 0.67% Win Rate: 51.42%

Crystalline Bracer

Pick Rate: 0.84% Win Rate: 50.29%

Best Augments for Tahm Kench

Prismatic

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 60.87%

Grants 35% bonus health, 15% adaptive force, and 50% increased size.

Infinite Recursion

Win rate: 62.10%

Gain 60 ability haste, increased by 3 each time you score a champion takedown.

Win rate: 56.32%

Your champion abilities deal 35% increased damage and you gain 70 ability haste and 35% increased healing and shielding from all sources, but your ultimate ability is permanently sealed.

Courage of the Colossus

Win rate: 49.39%

Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion grants a shield for 3 seconds that absorbs 100 to 300 (+ 5% maximum health) damage (5 second cooldown per cast instance). Shields can stack between multiple triggers of this effect, though not refreshing the duration of previous shields.

Win rate: 54.13%

Casting a spell refunds another random spell's cost by the required number of% of the original spell's Cooldown.

Win rate: 60.91%

Gain ability haste equal to 30% AP.

Gold

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 67.40%

Scoring a champion takedown generates a stack, stacking infinitely. For each stack, increase your maximum health and size by 5%. Lose 65% of stacks on death.

Quest: Steel Your Heart

Win rate: 65.30%

Quest: Obtain Heartsteel and accumulate over 300 bonus health from Colossal Consumption.

Reward: Upon completing your Quest, increase the bonus health gained from Heartsteel Colossal Consumption by 200%.

Win rate: 56.85%

Gain 1250 bonus health, but reduce your damage output by 10%.

Ethereal Weapon

Win rate: 58.29%

Your abilities apply on-hit effects (1 second cooldown per target).

Pressure Cooker

Win rate: 51.05%

Every second, apply a stacking Burn to nearby enemy champions, scaling with your max Health.

QUEST: Deal Burn damage to enemy Champions.

REWARD: Size and damage increase per Quest Level.

Win rate: 52.34%

Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion grants you 20 bonus health, stacking infinitely (5 second cooldown per cast instance).

Silver

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 63.49%

Basic attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 3.5% of your maximum health.

Win rate: 54.27%

Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion grants you 10 adaptive force, stacking infinitely (5 second cooldown per cast instance). Lose 50% of stacks on death.

Witchful Thinking

Win rate: 55.44%

Grants 20 to 80 ability power.

Forged By The Master

Win rate: 54.98%

Increase your Item and Augment damage by the required number of.

Win rate: 51.58%

Convert all of your bonus attack damage into ability power at a rate of 1 ability power per 0.6 bonus attack damage. Additionally, increase your ability power by 15%.

Win rate: 52.66%

Grants the Ocean Dragon Soul, which has a modified base heal value of 100, or a different Dragon Soul if you aleady have it.

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Recent Stats Changes

Recent Snapshots

20260701_210447 • Patch: 26.13 • S

Rank: 13 Win: 52.62% Pick: 11.92%

Rank Δ: 0 Win Rate Δ: +0.10% Pick Rate Δ: +0.04%

20260630_030136 • Patch: 26.13 • S 🛠 Build changed: Boots ✨ Augment changed: Silver

Rank: 13 Win: 52.52% Pick: 11.88%

Rank Δ: 0 Win Rate Δ: +0.09% Pick Rate Δ: 0.00%

Silver +Purist - Caster -Dive Bomber

20260628_030444 • Patch: 26.13 • S ✨ Augment changed: Prismatic

Rank: 13 Win: 52.43% Pick: 11.88%

Rank Δ: 0 Win Rate Δ: +0.01% Pick Rate Δ: -0.04%

Prismatic +Final Form -Stuck In Here With Me

20260627_030216 • Patch: 26.13 • S 🛠 Build changed: Boots ✨ Augment changed: Silver

Rank: 13 Win: 52.42% Pick: 11.92%

Silver +Dive Bomber -Upgrade Immolate

20260626_030129 • Patch: 26.13 • S ✨ Augment changed: Prismatic, Gold, Silver

Rank: 13 Win: 52.35% Pick: 11.93%

Prismatic +Dropkick, Cruelty, Quest: Wooglet's Witchcap +1 -Void Immolation, Empyrean Promise, Rite of Ascension +1

Gold +Transmute: Prismatic, Phenomenal Evil -Growth Spurt, Rabble Rousing

Silver +Forged By The Master, Escape Plan -Siphon, Mind to Matter

20260625_030343 • Patch: 26.13 • S

Rank: 15 Win: 51.83% Pick: 11.78%

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Infinite Recursion

Quest: Steel Your Heart

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