How to win lane as Tahm Kench against Locke · 49.75% win rate over 603 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Tahm Kench | Your level-1 passive stacks and grey health beat his poke outright. |
| Level 2 | Tahm Kench | At 2 your Q slow sets up melee trades that he loses. |
| Level 3 | Tahm Kench | Level 3 your dive engage plus passive stacks out-trade him cleanly. |
| Levels 4-5 | Tahm Kench | Through 4-5 your HP and sustain grind his steroid down. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | At 6 his R execute threat evens the lane for the first time. |
| First item | Even / skill | First-item burst arrives for him, but your grey-health recovery keeps it a coin-flip. |
| Two+ items | Tahm Kench | With items you scale into a peel-tank his execute cannot punish — the duel is dead for him. |
Levels 1 through 5 are a grind he loses: passive stacks and grey health beat his poke, the Q slow drags him into melee trades built for you, and from 3 your dive engage plus stacked passive out-trades everything. His on-hit chip just becomes grey health you recover — keep leaning on him.
The full Tahm Kench vs Locke report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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