Tahm Kench with Akshan
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Akshan
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Tahm Kench Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Tahm Kench Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 Akshan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akshan helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Akshan, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This may signal that Akshan helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akshan.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Akshan on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Tahm Kench in teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Akshan is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, they drops their win rate by -0.3% to 51.3%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Akshan that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be very careful when lining up Akshan allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by grouping Tahm Kench and Akshan together, you may not be providing your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to synergize with Akshan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench and Akshan synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Akshan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Akshan with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Tahm Kench players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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