Orianna with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Orianna and Tahm Kench
based on 1,232 Orianna with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Orianna Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Orianna vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Orianna and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Orianna with Tahm Kench
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Orianna in LoL
The Orianna 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, Orianna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Tahm Kench helps Orianna perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Tahm Kench provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Orianna during team fights.
Synergies between Orianna and Tahm Kench
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Is Orianna better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Orianna that will no matter what be her top ally. However, Tahm Kench is a good companion for Orianna. By locking into the same team as Orianna, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 49.5%. This proves that there is a somewhat important synergy between Orianna and Tahm Kench that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means Orianna players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Tahm Kench allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Orianna players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Orianna and Tahm Kench together, you may not be giving your team much AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Tahm Kench ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Orianna to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Orianna and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna used at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with most other common item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Orianna and Tahm Kench pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
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