Tahm Kench with Aphelios
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Aphelios
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Tahm Kench Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Tahm Kench Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Aphelios, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Aphelios does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Aphelios 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 Aphelios.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Aphelios on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best synergy for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Aphelios is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 50.7%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Tahm Kench and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players need to be careful when enlisting Aphelios teammates to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Tahm Kench and Aphelios together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to pair well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Tahm Kench and Aphelios synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 50.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Tahm Kench players should take 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 that we analyzed for Tahm Kench and Aphelios pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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