Bard with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Bard and Tahm Kench
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Bard Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Bard with Tahm Kench
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard 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 drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Bard perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may signal that Tahm Kench helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Tahm Kench does a decent job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top companion for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Tahm Kench is a pretty good companion for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 53.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a good strategic relationship between Bard and Tahm Kench that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be careful when lining up Tahm Kench teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Bard players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by aligning Bard and Tahm Kench together, you will not be giving your side enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's ability, you should 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 Bard to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into 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 important finished items to prioritize in your Bard and Tahm Kench synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with many other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 53.9% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.9% winrate overall.
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