Tahm Kench with Bard
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Bard
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Tahm Kench Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Bard
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Tahm Kench Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Bard, he observes a clear improvement in his full damage output. This may indicate that Bard provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Bard.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Bard on the same side, he often takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best companion for Tahm Kench that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Bard is a decent teammate for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, he improves their win rate by 2.3% to 53.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Tahm Kench and Bard that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players need to be cautious when lining up Bard comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Tahm Kench players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Tahm Kench and Bard together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough AD. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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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 in order to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Tahm Kench and Bard synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 53.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take 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 sets we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.9% winrate overall.
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