Nasus with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Nasus and Tahm Kench
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Nasus Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Tahm Kench
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus 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, Nasus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tahm Kench helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus is paired with Tahm Kench, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Tahm Kench does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no one best ally for Nasus that will always be his best teammate. However, Tahm Kench is a pretty good teammate for Nasus. By playing on the same side as Nasus, he raises their win rate by 1.8% to 52.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Nasus and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Tahm Kench comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Nasus players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Nasus and Tahm Kench together, you may not be providing your team much utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nasus to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Nasus and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Nasus players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nasus and Tahm Kench pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Tahm Kench with Nasus are given for every ranked division. To filter the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.