Heimerdinger with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Tahm Kench
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Heimerdinger Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Tahm Kench
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tahm Kench helps Heimerdinger perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This change may signal that Tahm Kench does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger 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 Heimerdinger plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Heimerdinger in team fights.
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no ideal synergy for Heimerdinger that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Tahm Kench is a pretty good ally for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same team as Heimerdinger, he increases their win rate by 1.2% to 50.8%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Heimerdinger and Tahm Kench that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Tahm Kench comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by aligning Heimerdinger and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master 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 finished items to use in your Heimerdinger and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with most other typical builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 50.8% helping carry Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Heimerdinger and Tahm Kench pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
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