Lucian with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Lucian and Tahm Kench
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Lucian Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Tahm Kench
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Lucian perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lucian tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Tahm Kench doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Lucian plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of covering Lucian in teamfights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no one best ally for Lucian that will always be his best ally. However, Tahm Kench is a very typical ally for Lucian. By playing on the same side as Lucian, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 47.9%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Lucian and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Tahm Kench allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Lucian and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Lucian and Tahm Kench synergy build include Rapid Firecannon, Stormrazor, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lucian boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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