Tahm Kench vs Ornn Counter Pick

This matchup is nearly symmetrical on paper. Both champions start with 175 attack range and 335 movement speed, each has 32 base magic resist, and both sit at a difficulty rating of 5. The gaps come down to small differences in health and armor: Ornn has 660 health and 2,513 at level 18 where the opponent has 640 and 2,391, and his base armor is 33 against 39. Health at level 18 is 121.4 versus 118.9. With two tanks this evenly matched, the deciding factor is how their abilities interact with resistances, and that is where the fight is won or lost. Tahm Kench posts a 43.45% win rate over 481 games on patch 16.13.1, and the model rates the matchup Hard.

Bellows Breath puts Brittle on anyone who gets hit by the last burst of flame, while Living Forge boosts Ornn’s armor and magic resist from all sources and lets him forge items from any location instead of recalling to base. In practice, one kit raises his own effective resistances and lowers the enemy’s, and the other turns incoming damage back into healing: Thick Skin stores a percentage of damage taken and releases it as a shield, and Tongue Lash restores health when it connects with a champion. Volcanic Rupture drops a magma pillar that Searing Charge can slam into, and Call of the Forge God brings both a slow and a knock-up. Since the two share the same move speed, escaping once Ornn has the terrain prepared is hard.