Leona with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Leona and Tahm Kench
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Leona Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Leona with Tahm Kench
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a very large drop in her 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 Leona perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Tahm Kench supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same side, 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 with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Leona in team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Tahm Kench
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Is Leona better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Leona that will always be her #1 synergy. Yet, Tahm Kench is a very typical companion for Leona. By being on the same side as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 51.2%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Leona and Tahm Kench that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Tahm Kench comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Leona players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Leona and Tahm Kench together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Tahm Kench teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Leona 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 tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Leona and Tahm Kench synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with most other common builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 51.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Tahm Kench with Leona are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.