Tahm Kench with Akali
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Akali
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Tahm Kench Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Akali
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Tahm Kench Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Tahm Kench sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akali helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Akali, he gets a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Akali does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akali.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Akali on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Akali does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench in teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Akali?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Akali is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same team as Tahm Kench, she lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 51.3%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Tahm Kench and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players should be very careful when finding Akali teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Tahm Kench and Akali together, you may not be granting your side enough AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Akali teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to work well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Tahm Kench and Akali synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when playing alongside Akali with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
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