Tahm Kench with Jax
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Jax
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Tahm Kench Jax Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Jax
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Jax
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 Jax Will Play
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Tahm Kench Jax Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jax as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 Jax. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Jax helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Jax, he gets a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Jax does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Jax on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Jax. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Jax.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Jax on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Jax does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Jax?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Jax is a pretty good teammate for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, he increases their win rate by 1.9% to 53.5%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Tahm Kench and Jax that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Jax has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Jax allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by aligning Tahm Kench and Jax together, you may not be giving your team enough AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Jax teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Tahm Kench in order to pair well with Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Jax synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Jax than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 53.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jax with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.5% winrate overall.
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