← Back to Champions

S+

Tahm Kench S+ Tier ARAM Mayhem Build

Tahm Kench · The River King

TankSupport53.98% WR14.51% PRPatch: 26.16

Damage Received+5%

Tahm Kench is S+ tier in ARAM: Mayhem patch 26.16 with a 53.98% win rate. This guide covers their ARAM build, augment picks, and Mayhem-specific synergies.

Best Augments for Tahm Kench

Back To Basics56.93%

Tank Engine65.49%

Ethereal Weapon60.67%

Heavy Hitter62.51%

Slap Around53.41%

Augment Combos for Tahm Kench

View all combos →

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 HeartS

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 HammerA

Damage is huge but fragile.

Ethereal WeaponCTechFun

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 26.16.

Skill Priority

Data date: 20260820

Q>E>WPick Rate: 38.17%Win Rate: 48.92%

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

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

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

Q>W>EPick Rate: 27.96%Win Rate: 49.21%

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

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

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

E>Q>WPick Rate: 12.08%Win Rate: 48.83%

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

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

Q W E Q E R E E E Q R Q Q W WPick 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

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Pick Rate: 4.05%Win Rate: 54.38%

Sorcerer's Shoes

Pick Rate: 1.51%Win Rate: 54.79%

Mercury's Treads

Pick Rate: 32.08%Win Rate: 50.54%

Plated Steelcaps

Pick Rate: 11.13%Win Rate: 48.55%

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: 57.12%Win Rate: 54.08%

Pick Rate: 12.27%Win Rate: 51.25%

Tear of the Goddess

Pick Rate: 1.55%Win Rate: 51.64%

Pick Rate: 0.83%Win Rate: 53.32%

Crystalline Bracer

Pick Rate: 11.17%Win Rate: 50.73%

Best Augments for Tahm Kench

Prismatic

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 60.46%

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

Win rate: 56.93%

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.

Infinite Recursion

Win rate: 62.22%

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

Win rate: 61.23%

Gain ability haste equal to 30% AP.

Win rate: 53.69%

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

Courage of the Colossus

Win rate: 49.89%

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.

Gold

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 65.49%

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.

Ethereal Weapon

Win rate: 60.67%

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

Quest: Steel Your Heart

Win rate: 63.57%

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: 56.47%

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

Pressure Cooker

Win rate: 51.44%

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.

Transmute: Prismatic

Win rate: 60.42%

Gain one random Prismatic augment, excluding the other two offerings in your current assortment.

Silver

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 62.51%

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

Win rate: 53.41%

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: 55.15%

Grants 20 to 80 ability power.

Purist - Caster

Win rate: 55.83%

Convert all of your bonus attack speed into ability haste at a rate of 0.65 ability haste per 1% bonus attack speed. Additionally, your abilities' total cooldowns are reduced by 10%.

Forged By The Master

Win rate: 54.56%

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

Win rate: 51.90%

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%.

Submit a combo for Tahm Kench

Submit combo

Recent Stats Changes

Recent Snapshots

20260821_013430•Patch: 26.16•S+

Rank: 5Win: 53.98%Pick: 14.51%

Rank Δ: ↓ -1Win Rate Δ: +0.18%Pick Rate Δ: +0.01%

20260813_155723•Patch: 26.16•S+🛠 Build changed: Boots✨ Augment changed: Gold

Rank: 4Win: 53.80%Pick: 14.50%

Rank Δ: ↑ +3Win Rate Δ: -0.11%Pick Rate Δ: +1.57%

Gold +Pursuit of Haste -Soul Eater

20260731_221718•Patch: 26.15•S+🛠 Build changed: Boots

Rank: 7Win: 53.91%Pick: 12.93%

Rank Δ: ↑ +1Win Rate Δ: +0.20%Pick Rate Δ: +0.35%

20260726_185822•Patch: 26.14•S

Rank: 8Win: 53.71%Pick: 12.58%

20260718_081020•Patch: 26.14•S✨ Augment changed: Prismatic

Rank: 8Win: 53.53%Pick: 12.49%

Prismatic +High Roller -Cruelty

20260710_214816•Patch: 26.13•S

Rank: 11Win: 52.96%Pick: 12.15%

Explore more

Champions like Tahm Kench (Tank)

Full tier list →

Other Tank picks in ARAM Mayhem ranked near Tahm Kench on the current patch tier list.

Augments commonly built on Tahm Kench

All augments →

Jump to the augment guides Tahm Kench players pick most often this patch.

Infinite Recursion

Ethereal Weapon

Quest: Steel Your Heart

Related ARAM Mayhem combos

High-tier combos featured on champions similar to Tahm Kench.

Rell + Courage of the Colossus

Alistar + Executioner

Nautilus + Courage of the Colossus

Sion + Tank Engine

Sion + Ultimate Revolution