Garen with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Garen and Tahm Kench
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Garen Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Garen with Tahm Kench
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Tahm Kench helps Garen perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Tahm Kench doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Tahm Kench on the same side, 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.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually takes 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 covering Garen during team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Tahm Kench
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Is Garen better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top ally for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Tahm Kench is a pretty good ally for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 50.1%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Garen and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be very careful when lining up Tahm Kench comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Garen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Garen and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be giving your team enough magic damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Garen and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 50.1% helping carry Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Garen and Tahm Kench pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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