Irelia with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Irelia and Tahm Kench
based on 1,584 Irelia with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Tahm Kench
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Irelia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tahm Kench helps Irelia perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Tahm Kench does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of protecting Irelia in teamfights.
Synergies between Irelia and Tahm Kench
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no perfect companion for Irelia that will no matter what be her best ally. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a good companion for Irelia. By playing on the same side as Irelia, he raises their win rate by 2.3% to 52.1%. This proves that there is a good bond between Irelia and Tahm Kench that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players don't need to be very careful when arranging Tahm Kench allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Irelia and Tahm Kench together, you may not be giving your other allies very much sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench teammate, you need to focus on increasing your 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
To truly master Irelia in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Irelia and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Irelia bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other common builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 52.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Irelia and Tahm Kench pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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