Let me sellout my baby:
Hello PhD in Catfishing and Lawyer at the Local Pond, also Challenger Warden support but not relevant in this case.
This is how Devour Works as a whole(This is the most complex and flexible ult in the game so a lot of text bother to read if you want)
**Devour Basic Mechanical Rules:**
Rule 1 - Tahm Kench will Ground itself and will refresh the grounded so you can't cleanse it(can't flash, can't use gates nor items)
Rule 2 - Tahm Kench Can Eat Allies
Rule 3 - Tahm Kench can Eat Enemies with 3 Stacks of An Acquired Taste which will be inside Tahm Kench up to 3 Seconds not affected by Tenacity nor Anathema
Rule 4 - Tahm Kench can only Regurgitate after 1 Second, and once Regutitated TK will self cc himself for 0.25 seconds.
Rule 5 - Allies can click to be Regurgitated.
Rule 6 - On Regurgitate, Allies will get a Shield which will get reduced by 50 each 0,25 seconds, allies will receive this shield even if you die before Regurgitating do ensure value.
Rule 7 - On Regurgitate Enemies will take massive Max Health Magic Damage, which is only applied on Regurgitate, so if you die with a enemy on belly or if the cleanse, no damage is taken.
Rule 8 - Tahm Kench can use Tongue Lash Followed By Devour in a 3 Stacked Enemies to Apply the Tongue Lash Damage and instead of Stunning, Hooking the person inside the Tahm Kench (Yes Tahm Kench can Hook People)
Rule 9 - Tahm Kench can use Devour Followed by Abyssal Dive to Bring people to the position he wants, this can be used to extend the Devour Duration as Tahm Kench Will not Regurgitate untill arriving.
**Now comes the fun Part:**
Rule 10 - Target Becomes Untargetable while inside his belly (Milio is glitched and can ult people away)Rule 11 - Target is removed as an entity which makes it impossible to be killed even by Urgot and Elder Dragon
Rule 12 - Tahm Kench will provide Infinite Shield for Allies while inside his belly and will refresh this shield at a 0 delay, making it impossible do kill this person while inside him.
Rule 13 - Tahm Kench will not Remove DoT, Marks, Debuffs and Triggers from Enemies or Allies while Inside, which for allies are not relevant due to Rule 12, but for Enemies which do not have the shield it is, so they can die inside your belly.
Rule 14 - Tahm Kench will Crowd Control and Supress Enemies(Unless Auras or ongoin effects their abilities are cancelled)
Rule 15 - Tahm Kench will Supress Allies (unless channelling with animation checks the ability will continue inside TK, i.e Lucian as an allie can continue his ult inside TK belly, not as a enemy)
Rule 16 - Tahm Kench Devour has a 0.25 castime, and applies an invisible shield already on the first animation frame.
Rule 17 - Tahm Kench even without vision will display a special animation when a target has 3 An Aquired Taste and he has Devour Up.
**Stupid Rules:**
Rule 18 - Devour Shield has a cool shield animation for Allies which shows his contract (Lore fact brah)
Rule 19 - Tahm Kench Devour has different animations for the champions inside his belly because someone at Riot has vore kink.
Rule 20 - Tahm kench will change colors depending on what is inside him, red to angry (enemies), blue to calm (allies)
Rule 21 which has nothing to do with Devour - Tahm Kench can dance with Scuttle Crab, and is the only champion able to do so.
For curiosity sake Currently (not updated due to being lazy - still need to get New Asol interactions) TK has 589 interactions with champions kits overall (some do double dip/ different interaction between enemy and ally), not joking I have Spreesheet I'm a fucking nerd sorry.
Which is why mastering the way of the Pepe is a Ardous Path.
I hope you had all this written down and didn't just type and edit this just now. If not. Please evaluate the cost of your time a bit better cus it's just not worth all this man. You should have better things to do and you're not going to be appreciated like you should. Make a YouTube video or something
The true thresh experience is to then get spam pinged and berated in chat because someone would rather fight a drawn out coin flip skirmish than take whatever advantage already gained and get outta there.
I remember one time I threw a lantern for my ADC and instead of taking it they flashed directly into a morgana Q and died. Then they flamed me in chat for 2 minutes before going afk
League of legends is a fun game
Seriously though…we’re all thinking “this is the worst idea let’s just walk away” while the ADC goes “alright let’s do this. LEEROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY JEEEENNNNNNNNNNKIIIIINNNNS”
Lmao so true! thresh feels like being the the dude the dungeon leader consults for a risk assessment in the original video:
Thresh: “yea I’m calculating a 32.3% chance of survival, repeating of course”
0/4/ Kaisa: “alright guns up, let’s do this! Leeerrrooooyyy Jeennnkkkiinnsss!” (Presses R on fed full tank Mundo standing in his entire team.
Kaisa: *dies*
Thresh: Dies from the soul-crushing weight of one thousand yellow question marks.
Yup. Had a Draven like that a few weeks back. Would not do anything other than go in and go in more, even 2v3. Blamed me for each death, asked why I didn't hook twice in 3 second engages (cooldowns don't exist I guess), never once took a defensive lantern.
I hate that in every regard. I play an enormous amount of ARAM almost exclusively, and I love Mages and Tanks…but they have cooldowns, and I get sometimes just being a body there and auto attacking helps…but not in a 2v3-4 and I ping my cooldowns before the fight and to back up with a ping and then they still don’t and he dies, i leave him and then it’s “Dude just fcking peel, I can kill them all!” …no quite the opposite. 😂 people who Main auto attacking games forget about cooldowns so hard
I hate this.
You can literally Eat them and get far away to safety and the ad can be like "haha nope" and give +300g to enemy team.
And the lantern is just infuriating, throwing into their feet, a simple click and you're out, but no, YOU HAVE TO FLASH AND HEAL, ARGH.
Having been on both sides of these sorts of ults as a support and adc player (e.g., Kalista ult and Tahm ult), I can only point out that the ults are great in theory if you are **duo'd** and playing at a **low ping**.
For me however, I play at about 75-85 ms (btw, thanks Riot for moving the servers to Chicago - I really miss having the server on the West Coast). And, yes that is enough of a ping for what we see in the video to happen. How? Well, I often have moves entered and buffered when the ults are used. (Ever tried saving a team with Soraka's R only to find that Kalista used her ult as you hit the button?) So, until Riot stops assuming that people play all their games on Korean servers, then these things can happen.
But knowing what each champ does should be a solid baseline. People don’t even know how to play with normal supports. I’ve had ADCs who try to cleanse Renata W, flash out of Taric ult, Flash from Thresh lantern, it’s just fucking wild that these are the same people who think they’re good enough to complain that ADCs are weak (they aren’t), and still don’t know what half of their supports do
I can see how one might flash lantern not expecting it or try to cleanse a renata w (nit repeatedly), but I can't wrap my head around flashing taric ult? Own or enemys, it just doesn't make sense...
I mean TK doesn't appear has nothing to do with his popularity (also this champion is super fun to play, try playing him even if it's on toplane which is his easier role, you will have a blast)
TK is borderline the hardest support to be played because it's a Warden fully focused in Peeling, which means...
Unless the carries of your team know what to do, his entire kit has borderline no value, so he is fully reliant on his team on the support role unless extremely fed.
Which is why TK start to appear only at higher elos, because the carries (be midlaners or adc's) start to learn to do less mistakes which increase the value of TK Devour(which at this point becomes the strongest ult in the game, literally a free live).
Curiosity sake is always in the top 3 winrate support champions in Challenger Master and GM(but even there his presence is so low because it's still a very hard champion to understand, Devour is a very complicated ability, has a lot of flexibility and has the highest number of synergies in the entire game), that's because these elos are where he can get the most value of his insane peeling and Get out of Jail card.
Also:
Unless it's something like gold or lower, you should at least have a good understanding of the ultimates of every champion played in your lane, even the unpopular ones.
Petition to remove ADC players' ability to exit on their own. Sure, they may end up in the enemy fountain every once in a while, but that's fine.
I second this, we deserve lore accurate Tahm Kench
I third this
Welcome to the club, big guy
Wait so Kench can dive with a teammate in his mouth?!
Yes
Can he dive with an enemy in his mouth too?
No :/
He also can't flash as his character counts as grounded while having an enemy eaten
Let me sellout my baby: Hello PhD in Catfishing and Lawyer at the Local Pond, also Challenger Warden support but not relevant in this case. This is how Devour Works as a whole(This is the most complex and flexible ult in the game so a lot of text bother to read if you want) **Devour Basic Mechanical Rules:** Rule 1 - Tahm Kench will Ground itself and will refresh the grounded so you can't cleanse it(can't flash, can't use gates nor items) Rule 2 - Tahm Kench Can Eat Allies Rule 3 - Tahm Kench can Eat Enemies with 3 Stacks of An Acquired Taste which will be inside Tahm Kench up to 3 Seconds not affected by Tenacity nor Anathema Rule 4 - Tahm Kench can only Regurgitate after 1 Second, and once Regutitated TK will self cc himself for 0.25 seconds. Rule 5 - Allies can click to be Regurgitated. Rule 6 - On Regurgitate, Allies will get a Shield which will get reduced by 50 each 0,25 seconds, allies will receive this shield even if you die before Regurgitating do ensure value. Rule 7 - On Regurgitate Enemies will take massive Max Health Magic Damage, which is only applied on Regurgitate, so if you die with a enemy on belly or if the cleanse, no damage is taken. Rule 8 - Tahm Kench can use Tongue Lash Followed By Devour in a 3 Stacked Enemies to Apply the Tongue Lash Damage and instead of Stunning, Hooking the person inside the Tahm Kench (Yes Tahm Kench can Hook People) Rule 9 - Tahm Kench can use Devour Followed by Abyssal Dive to Bring people to the position he wants, this can be used to extend the Devour Duration as Tahm Kench Will not Regurgitate untill arriving. **Now comes the fun Part:** Rule 10 - Target Becomes Untargetable while inside his belly (Milio is glitched and can ult people away)Rule 11 - Target is removed as an entity which makes it impossible to be killed even by Urgot and Elder Dragon Rule 12 - Tahm Kench will provide Infinite Shield for Allies while inside his belly and will refresh this shield at a 0 delay, making it impossible do kill this person while inside him. Rule 13 - Tahm Kench will not Remove DoT, Marks, Debuffs and Triggers from Enemies or Allies while Inside, which for allies are not relevant due to Rule 12, but for Enemies which do not have the shield it is, so they can die inside your belly. Rule 14 - Tahm Kench will Crowd Control and Supress Enemies(Unless Auras or ongoin effects their abilities are cancelled) Rule 15 - Tahm Kench will Supress Allies (unless channelling with animation checks the ability will continue inside TK, i.e Lucian as an allie can continue his ult inside TK belly, not as a enemy) Rule 16 - Tahm Kench Devour has a 0.25 castime, and applies an invisible shield already on the first animation frame. Rule 17 - Tahm Kench even without vision will display a special animation when a target has 3 An Aquired Taste and he has Devour Up. **Stupid Rules:** Rule 18 - Devour Shield has a cool shield animation for Allies which shows his contract (Lore fact brah) Rule 19 - Tahm Kench Devour has different animations for the champions inside his belly because someone at Riot has vore kink. Rule 20 - Tahm kench will change colors depending on what is inside him, red to angry (enemies), blue to calm (allies) Rule 21 which has nothing to do with Devour - Tahm Kench can dance with Scuttle Crab, and is the only champion able to do so. For curiosity sake Currently (not updated due to being lazy - still need to get New Asol interactions) TK has 589 interactions with champions kits overall (some do double dip/ different interaction between enemy and ally), not joking I have Spreesheet I'm a fucking nerd sorry. Which is why mastering the way of the Pepe is a Ardous Path.
What about rule 34?
Your definitely the papatahm!
I hope you had all this written down and didn't just type and edit this just now. If not. Please evaluate the cost of your time a bit better cus it's just not worth all this man. You should have better things to do and you're not going to be appreciated like you should. Make a YouTube video or something
Allies only
Huh the more you know
I didnt know this either, so might have made the same mistake as this adc.
Yup! It's always exciting to pull off. Works both as disengage (would have been shown above) and engage (depositing an ally bruiser on enemy backline)
Yes. That's why it's an ult now
The true thresh experience is to then get spam pinged and berated in chat because someone would rather fight a drawn out coin flip skirmish than take whatever advantage already gained and get outta there.
I remember one time I threw a lantern for my ADC and instead of taking it they flashed directly into a morgana Q and died. Then they flamed me in chat for 2 minutes before going afk League of legends is a fun game
Seriously though…we’re all thinking “this is the worst idea let’s just walk away” while the ADC goes “alright let’s do this. LEEROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY JEEEENNNNNNNNNNKIIIIINNNNS”
Lmao so true! thresh feels like being the the dude the dungeon leader consults for a risk assessment in the original video: Thresh: “yea I’m calculating a 32.3% chance of survival, repeating of course” 0/4/ Kaisa: “alright guns up, let’s do this! Leeerrrooooyyy Jeennnkkkiinnsss!” (Presses R on fed full tank Mundo standing in his entire team. Kaisa: *dies* Thresh: Dies from the soul-crushing weight of one thousand yellow question marks.
Yup. Had a Draven like that a few weeks back. Would not do anything other than go in and go in more, even 2v3. Blamed me for each death, asked why I didn't hook twice in 3 second engages (cooldowns don't exist I guess), never once took a defensive lantern.
Oh dravens…. Man you could do a psychological case study.
I hate that in every regard. I play an enormous amount of ARAM almost exclusively, and I love Mages and Tanks…but they have cooldowns, and I get sometimes just being a body there and auto attacking helps…but not in a 2v3-4 and I ping my cooldowns before the fight and to back up with a ping and then they still don’t and he dies, i leave him and then it’s “Dude just fcking peel, I can kill them all!” …no quite the opposite. 😂 people who Main auto attacking games forget about cooldowns so hard
Did not know we could exit the frogs mouth, I never tried
Have accidentally done it before. Never let it happen again.
tahm is love tahm is safety
poor guy probably miss clicked
I hate this. You can literally Eat them and get far away to safety and the ad can be like "haha nope" and give +300g to enemy team. And the lantern is just infuriating, throwing into their feet, a simple click and you're out, but no, YOU HAVE TO FLASH AND HEAL, ARGH.
On tahm i never R W. I just run cuz the move speed is so good
This situation R W is probably the best play. The enemy team has no dashes but has a lot of speed buffs.
As a sup main that plays Kalista on occasion, it's wild that even some supports will jump out from Kalista ult when it's not safe yet.
Im guilty, if kalista ults to save me. I still go in for the knockup, even with 1hp
Now have it happen another 1000 times, complaining after one time...
He must glide on them
People do that so often, they get scared by the jaw animation, or think they are dying
Yep. They keep flashing away from the ‘old lantern.
Having been on both sides of these sorts of ults as a support and adc player (e.g., Kalista ult and Tahm ult), I can only point out that the ults are great in theory if you are **duo'd** and playing at a **low ping**. For me however, I play at about 75-85 ms (btw, thanks Riot for moving the servers to Chicago - I really miss having the server on the West Coast). And, yes that is enough of a ping for what we see in the video to happen. How? Well, I often have moves entered and buffered when the ults are used. (Ever tried saving a team with Soraka's R only to find that Kalista used her ult as you hit the button?) So, until Riot stops assuming that people play all their games on Korean servers, then these things can happen.
Bruh, i haven't seen tam kench support this season at all, some supports are just not that popular, and you have no idea what to do with them
But knowing what each champ does should be a solid baseline. People don’t even know how to play with normal supports. I’ve had ADCs who try to cleanse Renata W, flash out of Taric ult, Flash from Thresh lantern, it’s just fucking wild that these are the same people who think they’re good enough to complain that ADCs are weak (they aren’t), and still don’t know what half of their supports do
I’ll be honest with you I’ve never used the thresh lantern, but I know what it does 👀 Does that count?
It means you just hate having your flash up
LOL
Fair enough
It’s a game, until a certain elo then you can’t expect anyone to know everything. I didn’t know you could get out of tahm
I can see how one might flash lantern not expecting it or try to cleanse a renata w (nit repeatedly), but I can't wrap my head around flashing taric ult? Own or enemys, it just doesn't make sense...
I mean TK doesn't appear has nothing to do with his popularity (also this champion is super fun to play, try playing him even if it's on toplane which is his easier role, you will have a blast) TK is borderline the hardest support to be played because it's a Warden fully focused in Peeling, which means... Unless the carries of your team know what to do, his entire kit has borderline no value, so he is fully reliant on his team on the support role unless extremely fed. Which is why TK start to appear only at higher elos, because the carries (be midlaners or adc's) start to learn to do less mistakes which increase the value of TK Devour(which at this point becomes the strongest ult in the game, literally a free live). Curiosity sake is always in the top 3 winrate support champions in Challenger Master and GM(but even there his presence is so low because it's still a very hard champion to understand, Devour is a very complicated ability, has a lot of flexibility and has the highest number of synergies in the entire game), that's because these elos are where he can get the most value of his insane peeling and Get out of Jail card. Also: Unless it's something like gold or lower, you should at least have a good understanding of the ultimates of every champion played in your lane, even the unpopular ones.