Kai'Sa with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Tahm Kench
based on 3,491 Kai'Sa with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kai'Sa Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Tahm Kench
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Tahm Kench helps Kai'Sa perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kai'Sa plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This may signal that Tahm Kench does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Kai'Sa plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of covering Kai'Sa during teamfights.
Synergies between Kai'Sa and Tahm Kench
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top companion for Kai'Sa that will always be her ideal ally. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a decent teammate for Kai'Sa. By playing on the same team as Kai'Sa, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 48.5%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Kai'Sa and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Tahm Kench allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Kai'Sa players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by grouping Kai'Sa and Tahm Kench together, you will not be providing your other allies enough support. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Kai'Sa to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Kai'Sa and Tahm Kench synergy build include Stormrazor, Nashor's Tooth, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 48.5% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Kai'Sa players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kai'Sa and Tahm Kench pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Tahm Kench with Kai'Sa are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.