Malphite with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Malphite and Tahm Kench
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Malphite Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Tahm Kench
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
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.
Malphite Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite 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, Malphite sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Malphite perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Tahm Kench provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with 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.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Malphite in teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no one best ally for Malphite that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a decent teammate for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, he improves their win rate by 2.5% to 52.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Malphite and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Tahm Kench allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Malphite players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Malphite and Tahm Kench together, you will not be providing your side very much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malphite to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Malphite and Tahm Kench synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Malphite used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Malphite players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.6% win rate overall.
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