Kog'Maw with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Tahm Kench
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Kog'Maw Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Tahm Kench
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw 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, Kog'Maw 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 fall shows that Tahm Kench helps Kog'Maw perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw is paired with Tahm Kench, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Tahm Kench does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of covering Kog'Maw during teamfights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Tahm Kench
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top ally for Kog'Maw that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Tahm Kench is a not very good teammate for Kog'Maw. By playing on the same team as Kog'Maw, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Kog'Maw and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players don't need to be careful when enlisting Tahm Kench comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kog'Maw and Tahm Kench together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Tahm Kench teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Kog'Maw to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Kog'Maw and Tahm Kench synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Kog'Maw players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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