Tahm Kench with Kassadin
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Kassadin
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Tahm Kench Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Tahm Kench Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kassadin helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Kassadin, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Kassadin does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kassadin.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Kassadin on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Kassadin does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no perfect companion for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Kassadin is a below average companion for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same side as Tahm Kench, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 50.3%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Kassadin that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you need to be careful when finding Kassadin comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Tahm Kench players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Tahm Kench and Kassadin together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 to pair well with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Tahm Kench and Kassadin synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Kassadin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 50.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood 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. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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