Tahm Kench with Karma
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Karma
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Tahm Kench Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Karma
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Tahm Kench Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karma helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Karma, he gets a noticable increase in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Karma helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Karma 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 synergisticly with Karma.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Karma on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Karma does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Karma?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Tahm Kench that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Karma is a below average teammate for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, she lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 49.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Tahm Kench and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Karma allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Tahm Kench and Karma together, you probably will not be giving your side enough sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench in order to pair well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Tahm Kench and Karma synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Karma than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing alongside Karma with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating 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. Of all the runes players used for Tahm Kench and Karma pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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