Tahm Kench with Garen
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Garen
based on 1,380 Tahm Kench with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Garen
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Tahm Kench Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Garen, he observes a noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Garen does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Garen 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 alongside Garen.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Garen on the same team, he on average takes less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Garen does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Garen?
There is no top synergy for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Garen is a not very good companion for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same team as Tahm Kench, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Tahm Kench and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Garen comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Tahm Kench and Garen together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough magical damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to work well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Tahm Kench and Garen 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 paired up with Garen than with many other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you 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 runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Garen with Tahm Kench are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.