Neeko vs Tahm Kench Counter Pick

Durability decides this one. Tahm Kench opens at 640 health behind 39 armor and 32 points of magic resist, then climbs to 2,391 health with 118.9 armor, while Thick Skin stores a share of the damage he takes and converts it into a shield. Neeko’s 43.1% in 246 games on patch 16.13.1 is what that wall looks like from the other side: against a champion dealing only magic damage, base magic resist plus delayed conversion blunts the poke pattern before items arrive.

Devour is the sharper problem. It swallows an ally for a few seconds, pulling the target out of Pop Blossom‘s stun radius and out of the follow-up damage that justifies the ultimate. Used offensively, the same button deals magic damage to Neeko, whose 21 armor and 610 health at level one leave little margin.

Range is her only real asset: 550 against 175, with Tangle-Barbs reaching past Tongue Lash and rooting through several targets at once. Holding that spacing is hard because Tahm Kench travels at 335 against 340, close enough that repositioning creates no distance. Difficulty reads 5 on both sides, so no execution gap explains the result. The workable adjustment is refusing extended trades and spending Blooming Burst on the wave rather than on a 2,391-health frame, keeping Neeko at range until Tahm Kench uses Abyssal Dive and lands beside her.