The Gambler's Woe (Tahm Kench Lore)

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[@thelonewolf9866]

Now that video! It left me satisfied!

[@asopbob6064]

F you

[@JosephStalin-vo6gi]

@Idris Callan bruh you 2 bots are everywhere.

[@capbarker]

Tahm Kench's theme music doesn't have the kind of excitement that lots of other themes have, but it's still _easily_ one of my favorites out of them all. Tahm was never my fave in-game, but everything about his themes is so damn well made imo

[@takosoup6556]

Why are the scary looking supports usually in Bilgewater?

[@sovietblyatypus]

Edgy_Weeb26 cause bilgewater is one of the darkest places in runeterra, along with the shadow isles

[@creatressanna8714]

The only scary Bilgewater characters in appearance are Tahm Kench, Pyke, and Nautilus to an extent because of how huge he is. The Void and the Shadow Isles definitely have a lot more scary-looking champions than Bilgewater, and even Zaun gives it a run for its money.

[@cenetermacaronied2489]

Lady Synth are u not aware of the depths, the sea around bilgewater? the ctulhu like sea monsters? u should watch necrits video about it

[@simonhalicka5201]

Whens the Tahm in the lane ur the one whos supportin

[@EinGlasWasser]

Tahm Top ist still OP 🤞🏻

[@fatcoyote2]

Tahm Kench's video, it makes me think that the bride was his target. Old Tahm had made a deal with the bride, for what I don't know, but no longer had access to her for some reason [MAGIC!], so he made a deal with the gambler, who fell in love with his bride to be. In collecting on the gambler's bargain, he also collected on the bride's. "Please! Not now! Not this time!" was what the bride said, not the gambler. She wasn't horrified because a monster was rampaging in her home, she almost seemed to expect it. "Not THIS TIME." Maybe she wanted a man who was bold, brash, exciting...like a gambler. Maybe she wasn't really a princess.

[@projectsanctuary7944]

bruhh that makes sense

[@I_am-lost.]

That's pretty awesome

[@JosephStalin-vo6gi]

There is no way someone escapes Tahm Kench. Even if you somehow make a deal and after that dissapear he can just go back in time. Your theory is very interesting, i think bride made a deal and when she has found her happiness Tahm came to take it from her.

[@diamondmetal3062]

You know what, Kench strikes me as too classy a devil to involve random people in his schemes, it’s not as interesting to him. Plus, what’s better than collecting two debts at once?

[@prodigal99]

I got it thanks to a fellow in the comments section of Tahm Kench's official teaser video. So basically Tahm Kench is a metaphor for greed. A gambler lost everything and had a chance to walk away, but greed showed up again and swallowed him up. Greed has a hunger only "men like him" could satisfy. Eventually he found love and married a "princess." This means his wife must be wealthy. The narrator says, "When that hungry beast finally did arise" he gambled away his wife's money. The family screamed and fought. The wife begged him to stop but he couldn't, so he lost the house, the gold, and his wife to "Tahm Kench" or greed.

[@marmyeater]

Tahm Kench's music is beautiful and spooky, and his voice practically says: I'm such a nice and polite guy, how about you come a little closer? Listening to them both always sends shivers up my spine.

[@naturesbeauty5086]

his music sounds like a music from texas

[@quinnbrinton989]

@@naturesbeauty5086 Louisiana probably more like it

[@marmyeater]

@@quinnbrinton989 Both states have some similar inspiration.

[@wowfan586]

I think Tahm is the manifestation of the gambler, the bride pleads with Tahm and Tahm responds which sounds like the response of a addict, 'it ate the gifts, the house and the gold'. "This hungers a burden... it's the last time I swear(gambling addiction) "so please forgive" all addicts use blackmail/sympathy to justify their habits

[@CodenameMood]

If benches could devour people, we would have Tahm Kench.

[@norfrakenevermore7758]

Tahm Bench

[@flvvrs4197]

Unkench the Bench

[@dunklemuste8214]

Is it bad I recognize that profile pic

[@theodorwissingkrogh5687]

@@dunklemuste8214 yes.

[@literallyatank9263]

There’s a bench in Valorant that has Tahm’s face, so now BenchKench is real

[@theless-than-goodhunter7019]

Shake my hand. Come on, boys, won’t you shake a poor sinners hand?

[@ExecutionerThel]

It's so nice to see one of my favourite champion designs finally get some more lore

[@joggingpants2546]

yesssssssssss

[@1mad8ro]

Storytime with sir davos seaworth.

[@munchy6211]

Who else Kench main like this for being the fish MAIN

[@domenv66]

kench main cuz he can eat stuff and like do damaga

[@drfreshpotato2543]

UNBENCH THE KENCH

[@graysonpitman5943]

Yas

[@rakeshlight4391]

love playing him my friends tell me "PUT ME IT COACH" when I eat them

[@ishadablackman8689]

What are you saying? Could you rephrase that please lol

[@mildlyfrustrated8001]

Tahm Kench: The Darkin Tophat

[@rocketbiter]

Yes... he's a demon... Edit: Oh wow that comment is 3 years old

[@73NSH1]

​@@rocketbiter Lmao and both sad this comment did not get enough recognition

[@73NSH1]

​@@rocketbiter Lmao and both sad this comment did not get enough recognition

[@zechparker4748]

The lore has unbenched him

[@Megatron209]

Has to be my favorite audio and story in league they need more of these

[@alcoholicshoe191]

finally this has come i love you necrit ive always been waiting for tahms video

[@zjieldb8415]

There is a loading screen tooltip saying how the inventor of the "Runeterra Incognium" mysteriously died before being able to reveal its power source. Could it be the lady that got eaten by Kench in this video? Or do we already know who that inventor was?

[@atgo2640]

zjiel dble I thought that too, but in "Progress Day" the inventor of the "Runeterra Incognium" was confirmed to be a man named Zindelo. Lil sad that Riot didn't made it as an easter egg.

[@zjieldb8415]

Aww, that was such a nice opportunity for them :c Thanks for the answer!

[@Wan199x]

i love how even if you have nothing to lose tahm gives you all you ever wanted only to take it away

[@hurricanex3142]

Wan199 he gives you stuff you build it up then he takes it all away. Kinda like intrest.

[@dotsinki1096]

My lord I have been waiting for this!

[@MistPhD]

600k Kench top main :D “How the f#%k does a TANK do that much damage?!” -enemy top laners Update: 1mil

[@culinarycrusader4978]

What's this cat fish gunna do? -Yasuo 40 mins ago - now

[@The_JEB]

do you mlem them to death?

[@radiahmed126]

I just started him last week . Once u get 3 stacks the enemy is basically as good as dead

[@raphaelmerino100]

Simpletons who do not know you do not 1v1 a Tahm Kench on Melee range, and that his Damage scales based on his HP... I love that even when his is the weakest champion in the game, he can still destroy In top lane because people are dumb and get CatFished.

[@zealotoftheorchard9853]

HAhaha silly support, bot lane is that way - me before going 1/8

[@idizme4316]

I quess I'm going back to being a Tahm main

[@antonisnicolaou9212]

Anyone know who voiced the audio dramas? He sounds like Ryze's voice actor

[@Back_To_Pray]

Ctrl + 6 and Ctrl + 4 macro while the enemy is devoured is one of my greatest joys.

[@jakewright3560]

so..... is pyke the man that met fizz and kench? Feels like a good fit... Speculation at its finest.

[@LycanDreams9159]

....did...you listen to the entire story of the man who met fizz and kench? pyke straight up harpoons him at the end

[@MsErtwer]

To bad the character talking has been killed by pyke.

[@samzols]

Hmm progress day is like a science fair? Nice work as always tho keep up the good work

[@bittersweethufflepuff6519]

230,000 subs ? dang you've come a long way !

[@lorenculp9349]

Kench is my absolute favorite character and I throughly enjoyed this. Is there a Bard video?

[@masongallagher5513]

Best voice on KZbin by far.

[@raphaelmerino100]

I hope that Kench is like a dark merchant in the new bilgewater game. He give you nice things, in trade takes away things, like a deal of the devil from Isaac.

[@kingpanda3719]

That narrator dude has been through some shit..from pyke to fizz to nautilus and tahm? Damn son

[@metalk1tt3n]

darn.. Tahm Kench is a great personification of addiction, Riot did a good job there

[@antwan1357]

The name backwords phonetically seems to say CHECK MATH

[@tomaskotva6391]

Tahm kench has so many secrets, on his bio he is from runeterra, but in the runeterra map, he is from bilgewater, but only ionians are simular to animals, so kench is ionian? or is he some experiment of the mad scientist singed?

[@tex4096]

He is a demon. The demon of greed. Similiar to Nocturne the demon of fear and Evelyn the demon of lust.

[@strider8662]

@@tex4096 I know this is a very old comment but I still want to correct. Evelynn is the demon of agony, not lust. There are stories where lust wasnt even present at all, she simply tries to make people as much as she could.

[@logan9163]

I'm not a lore God, so I really don't know much about it, but wouldn't it be cool if tahm kench actually gave pyke his "immortality?" Like tahm kench obviously likes to prey on people, including the rich, so when pyke got betrayed, he saw the opportunity for pyke to basically hunt down the people and he could gluttonize on them.

[@zataiyo6738]

That first story is a classic fairy tale

[@louijienapone5494]

Too early xD been here since 2013 much luv!!

[@lighttrizane9844]

Aww memories from when I started League

[@lennartjaenisch5186]

Light Trizane i started 2 weeks before ekko was shown and became a support main i would say the time tahm kench was teased i was so hyped no champion (maybe pyke) had me hyped so much like the good old river king.

[@samikaislasalo3947]

1000th like :D and thanks man for tvis

[@Ofxzh]

Love that pirate

[@MillenniumEarl014]

Milk this shit Necrit!

[@Necrit]

If I wanted to milk money from from content, I wouldn't release story coverage with 30% normal views :>

[@TheAKReaper]

if he wanted to milk this he would do 10 minutes videos and so he can make more than 1 video

[@Darkplazmadragon]

Hey Necrit, think you could maybe talk about Zilean's Lore sometime?

[@aberrantreptile]

Plazma zilean doesn’t really have enough canon lore for a whole video

[@Darkplazmadragon]

yea i know lol rip.

[@creatressanna8714]

He'll likely be getting a lore update in the future. Necrit will talk about it then.

[@user-cy8ld7nh6w]

He will give you everything you want And take everything you have

[@TheSinBin512]

so remember boys and girls now matter how alluring hes words are they'll never compare to you....

[@Soofkin]

Man this guy is the bad luck brien of lol

[@DavidGarcia-lx7nt]

buen vídeo

[@xXxoBIGBRADoxXx]

Maybe that Harpooner is pyke??

[@stelko1018]

some dude in the discord channel reminded us for the video so here I am early a f

[@thodoriszoumplios6110]

are you going to cover pykes lore?

[@InfinityDunk]

yeet

[@NikKliaf]

@necrit am I the only one that thinks that the gambler from the teaser is twisted fate? (You may have already answered that and if so, I am sorry for not paying attention).

[@flvvrs4197]

Nikiforos Kliafas it is not, rito already awsered that

[@atgo2640]

Riot said that no one knows the true name of the demon, so they use the name of the Gambler in the teaser as a name to the demon, this means that the name of the gambler is Tham Kench.

[@jango20124]

Nikiforos Kliafas The gamblers name is Tahm Kench

[@NikKliaf]

But didnt tahm kench take a man in the teaser and travelled him to a faraway land? I thought that they called that man the gambler. And also, it says: Tahm Kench AND the gambler's woe, which basically means that tahm kench and the gambler are two different beings

[@franmesic5205]

Nikiforos Kliafas the teaser gambler and the bar lad telling the story are 2 diffrent people

[@captblacklung1500]

Is Tahm Kench and Evelynn the same kind of demon? They both feed on misery

[@loudsqueal2896]

im not entirely sure tahm kench is a demon, i just think he's a really strong, really fast and really smart river monster

[@carrioncrow2547]

Tahm Kench is a demon. Evelynn is a similar kind of demon. They both need some sort of "contract", before they can feed on the prey's misery. Tahm Kench feeds on emotions and needs the victim to agree on a deal. Evelynn feeds on physical pain. As soon as Tahm Kench got a deal with his victim, he gets all the power he needs to fullfill the deal on his part.

[@KhaosAdmiral]

@@carrioncrow2547 yeah, the other difference is that Tahm's method is to play the long game allowing for his next meal to be at the peak of their happiness before he "Comes to collect" so to speak where as Evelynn is more of the immediate, I want you now.

[@FrogEnjoyer17]

The demons all seem to feed on emotion, Fiddlesticks on fear, Nocturne on Nightmares which are just a derivative of fear, Tahm on desire and misery and Evelynn on sexuality which is just a derivative of desire but positive so maybe there are lower tier demons. Raum is weird thought, does he feed on the desire for knowledge/secrets?

[@AlecPhipps]

@@FrogEnjoyer17 I thought Evelynn was demon of agony

[@michaelferrone4112]

A meeting b/w Kench and Sett: Kench: "You wanna see you daddy, doncha boy? Give him his just deserts? All you gotta do is swipe one little thing for me. Your mama's-" Sett: "Not interested." **Beats the shit out of him**

[@niox1920]

Tahm kinda beats up sett tho

[@kingcrab7837]

“Someone who thinks with his fist will inevitably punch with his face”- Tahm kench

[@szabocsaba499]

Mr. Catfish

[@spacefax2157]

river tahm

[@kickless7776]

Was the gambler Twisted Fate or not? Am getting mixed messages

[@FrogEnjoyer17]

Nope

[@makiangelodacillo1620]

Too early to make a pun about licking huh

[@BloodlessTTV]

Make the Lore of Thresh

[@octaviusaugustus7205]

he already has

[@iandaniels6255]

You are late.

[@mahmoudemara5610]

Can i add you on league and play with you some time? 🤔

[@markusmellert5421]

killer Boy try asking him when he’s streaming, It’s more likely for him to notice you there

[@mahmoudemara5610]

Markus Mellert thanks ❤️

[@nagegg1481]

xd

[@rzdnbc5917]

Necrit you dont get tired of telling lores?

[@thecollectorsinged113]

He won't be, the lore will just expand as new champions will come then he'll tell more lores.

[@culinarycrusader4978]

Necrit is ritos way to spread the lore and spread legs

[@stickbugging]

Wow clearly nobody cares about man the last comment was 7 months ago. Poor champion.

[@LamiaDomina]

I feel like this character was kind of a wasted opportunity. He's a cool concept that could be legitimately sinister if they didn't animate him in a cartoonish silly waddle and make all his in game voice lines about I FAT I EAT FOOD and downplay the original "Faustian deciever" archetype his introduction story built him up as.

[@him4real262]

Try LOR he’s completely different

[@niox1920]

He's actually got quite a few taunts towards enemy champions that are him trying to get them to take a deal

[@LamiaDomina]

@@niox1920 That's cool for what it is, I just wish it was more forward in how they presented him.

[@niox1920]

@@LamiaDomina damn. I definitely didn't expect you to respond to me after a couple minutes for a year old comment. I do have to agree with you though, they could do better with him

[@LamiaDomina]

@@niox1920 I happened to be watching youtube to pass the time and got the alert.

[@nanjamo_desu27]

I'm the tenth one to like the video!

[@holgertiismus3613]

895 viewer

[@user-fd8xr3gy4d]

40th like bruh