Annie with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Annie and Tahm Kench
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Annie Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Annie with Tahm Kench
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tahm Kench helps Annie perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Tahm Kench supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Annie during team fights.
Synergies between Annie and Tahm Kench
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Is Annie better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Annie that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a good teammate for Annie. By playing on the same side as Annie, he increases their win rate by 1.2% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Annie and Tahm Kench that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be careful when arranging Tahm Kench allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Annie and Tahm Kench together, you may not be granting your team a lot of AD. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Annie in order to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Annie and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Annie included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 50.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Annie players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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