Tahm Kench with Alistar
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Alistar
based on 904 Tahm Kench with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Tahm Kench Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Tahm Kench perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Alistar, he gets a noticable increase in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Alistar helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Alistar on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Alistar does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top synergy for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Alistar is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 52.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Tahm Kench and Alistar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Alistar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Tahm Kench players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Tahm Kench and Alistar together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 truly master Tahm Kench to work well with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Tahm Kench and Alistar synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 52.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for Tahm Kench and Alistar pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.0% win rate overall.
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