Gragas with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Gragas and Tahm Kench
based on 1,133 Gragas with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Tahm Kench
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening 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 Gragas perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is paired with Tahm Kench, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Tahm Kench does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Gragas during team fights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top companion for Gragas that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a decent teammate for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he increases their win rate by 2.1% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Gragas and Tahm Kench that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Tahm Kench teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Gragas and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be providing your side enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Gragas and Tahm Kench synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Gragas players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
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