Akshan with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Akshan and Tahm Kench
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Akshan Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Tahm Kench
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a large worsening in their 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 Akshan perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, they sees a marginal improvement in their complete damage output. This difference could signal that Tahm Kench helps provide protection for them to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Akshan plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, they typically receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Akshan in team fights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top champion pairing for Akshan that will always be their best teammate. However, Tahm Kench is a good companion for Akshan. By playing on the same side as Akshan, he improves their win rate by 2.3% to 51.3%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Akshan and Tahm Kench that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means Akshan players should be careful when finding Tahm Kench comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Akshan players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by pairing Akshan and Tahm Kench together, you may not be providing your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Akshan to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Akshan and Tahm Kench synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Akshan players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Akshan and Tahm Kench pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
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