Skarner with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Skarner and Tahm Kench
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Skarner Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Tahm Kench
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner 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, Skarner 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 drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This may signal that Tahm Kench helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of covering Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Tahm Kench
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Skarner that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Tahm Kench is a pretty good companion for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 49.8%. This signals that there is a good bond between Skarner and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Tahm Kench comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Skarner and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be giving your side very much AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Skarner in order to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Skarner and Tahm Kench synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 49.8% helping carry Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Skarner players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Skarner and Tahm Kench pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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