Galio with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Galio and Tahm Kench
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Galio Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Galio with Tahm Kench
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Galio in LoL
The Galio 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, Galio 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 Galio perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Galio is paired with Tahm Kench, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Tahm Kench provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played together with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Galio plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Galio during team fights.
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Is Galio better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no ideal synergy for Galio that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Tahm Kench is a great teammate for Galio. By locking into the same side as Galio, he increases their win rate by 3.4% to 54.0%. This clearly indicates that there is an important strategic relationship between Galio 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 Galio. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Tahm Kench teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Galio and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To truly master Galio in order to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Galio and Tahm Kench synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Galio had an average win rate of 54.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Galio players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Galio and Tahm Kench pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.0% win rate overall.
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