Shaco with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Shaco and Tahm Kench
based on 3,071 Shaco with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Tahm Kench
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Shaco perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Tahm Kench does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Shaco in teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Tahm Kench
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no one best companion for Shaco that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a decent teammate for Shaco. By playing on the same side as Shaco, he improves their win rate by 2.4% to 51.8%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Shaco and Tahm Kench that results in them performing better together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Tahm Kench allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Shaco and Tahm Kench together, you may not be granting your team much crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Shaco and Tahm Kench synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 51.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Shaco players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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