In the MOBA League of Legends, the latest champion has been revealed: It is Tahm Kench, the River King.
With a teaser, Riot had already announced him: The Riverking. Now he has been introduced, and the new champ in League of Legends is indeed a big fish. Riot describes his abilities as follows:
The Abilities of Tahm Kench
Passive Ability: Epicurean Taste
Tahm Kench applies an enhancement of Epicurean Taste to all enemy champions he damages with basic attacks or abilities. After three enhancements, he can … treat them differently.
Q: Tongue Lash
Tahm Kench briefly pauses before launching his tongue in a targeted manner. “Tongue Lash” ends when a target is hit, slowing and damaging everything he strikes.
If an enemy champion has three enhancements of “Epicurean Taste,” they are stunned instead by “Tongue Lash.”
W: Devour
Tahm Kench briefly swallows a nearby enemy unit. Opponents lose a portion of their maximum health as magic damage. Additionally:
- Minions and Monsters: When Tahm Kench devours enemy minions or monsters, he can reactivate the ability to spit them out in a targeted manner. All those who are hit take damage.
- Allied Champions: When Tahm Kench devours an allied champion, they become immune to damage and gain increased movement speed when heading towards enemy champions. Both Tahm Kench and his edible ally can decide when the latter jumps out.
- Enemy Champions: Tahm Kench can only devour enemy champions if he has already collected three enhancements of “Epicurean Taste” on them. His movement speed is drastically reduced while enemy champions are in his belly. Their vision is greatly restricted, and they can only see what is immediately near the River King’s location.
E: Thick Skin
Passive: Any damage done to Tahm Kench results in a grayed-out health bar. Once he leaves combat, the health bar is no longer grayed out, and he is healed for a portion of the gray health.
Active: Tahm Kench converts his gray health into a shield that lasts only briefly.
R: Abyssal Journey
Passive: Tahm Kench’s damage scales with his maximum health.
Active: Tahm Kench opens his maw and offers an ally a place in his belly. Once someone has jumped in or he has decided to dive alone, he conjures a whirlpool beneath him, leaping into it to surface at the desired location a few seconds later. “Abyssal Journey” has an immense range, but the activation of this ability takes quite a while.
According to Riot, the new champ in League of Legends is suitable as a solo laner or support. As a support, he can eat allied champs to bring them to safety. As a solo laner, he is robust and can either zone the enemy with the W within the range of his own tower or prepare a gank for the jungler. If he wants to gank himself, his mobility through the R helps him create a numbers advantage from ambush on lanes, especially when bringing his jungler along.
In team fights, it is crucial whom he intends to devour: an opponent or rather his own carry.
Sounds like an interesting guy. If being fat, as the stereotype suggests, is comfortable, that probably does not apply to fat fish.
