Aphelios with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Aphelios and Tahm Kench
based on 1,887 Aphelios with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Aphelios Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Tahm Kench
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Tahm Kench helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Tahm Kench, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This change may signal that Tahm Kench helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of protecting Aphelios during teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Tahm Kench
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Aphelios better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top champion pairing for Aphelios that will always be his top synergy. However, Tahm Kench is a pretty good companion for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he raises their win rate by 2.1% to 50.7%. This proves that there is a good bond between Aphelios and Tahm Kench that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Tahm Kench comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Aphelios and Tahm Kench together, you will not be giving your team very much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Aphelios
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Aphelios Players
How We Calculated Our Aphelios Tahm Kench Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Aphelios and Tahm Kench synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 50.7% helping carry Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Aphelios players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Aphelios and Tahm Kench pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Tahm Kench with Aphelios are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.