Shen with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Shen and Tahm Kench
based on 687 Shen with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Shen with Tahm Kench
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
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.
Shen Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Shen in LoL
The Shen 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, Shen sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Shen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is paired with Tahm Kench, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Tahm Kench doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with 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 with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a decent job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no one best ally for Shen that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Tahm Kench is a pretty good ally for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, he raises their win rate by 2.6% to 52.3%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Shen and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you should be very careful when finding Tahm Kench comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Shen and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Shen and Tahm Kench synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 52.3% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Shen and Tahm Kench pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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