Amumu with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Amumu and Tahm Kench
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Amumu Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Tahm Kench
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Amumu sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tahm Kench helps Amumu perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Tahm Kench supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Amumu in teamfights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Amumu that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Tahm Kench is a very typical ally for Amumu. By locking into the same team as Amumu, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 49.2%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Amumu and Tahm Kench that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you must be careful when finding Tahm Kench allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Amumu and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be granting your team enough attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Amumu and Tahm Kench synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Liandry's Torment. When Amumu used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with many other typical builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Amumu and Tahm Kench pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
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