Akali with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Akali and Tahm Kench
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Akali Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Akali with Tahm Kench
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Tahm Kench Will Play
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
Akali Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Akali in LoL
The Akali Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Akali perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali is an ally to Tahm Kench, she observes a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Tahm Kench does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Akali during team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no one best synergy for Akali that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, Tahm Kench is a decent ally for Akali. By locking into the same side as Akali, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 51.3%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Akali and Tahm Kench that results in them performing better together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be very careful when arranging Tahm Kench teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Akali players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Akali and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Akali and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with most other common item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Akali players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Akali and Tahm Kench pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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