Tahm Kench with Katarina
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Katarina
based on 3,042 Tahm Kench with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Tahm Kench Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Katarina helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Katarina, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Katarina does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Katarina on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench in teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal synergy for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Katarina is a relatively poor teammate for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, she lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 50.0%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Tahm Kench and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players should be careful when arranging Katarina comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Tahm Kench players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Tahm Kench and Katarina together, you will not be providing your team very much support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 work well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Katarina synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should use 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 sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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