Tahm Kench with Kayle
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Kayle
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Tahm Kench Kayle Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Kayle
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Kayle
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 Kayle Will Play
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Tahm Kench Kayle Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayle as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Kayle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayle, 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 Kayle. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayle helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Kayle, he gets a moderate decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Kayle does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Kayle on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kayle. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kayle.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Kayle on the same side, he usually takes less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Kayle does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench during teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Kayle?
There is no perfect companion for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Kayle is a good companion for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same side as Tahm Kench, she increases their win rate by 1.0% to 52.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Tahm Kench and Kayle that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Kayle has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players should be very careful when arranging Kayle allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Tahm Kench and Kayle together, you will not be giving your side enough attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Kayle ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 work well with Kayle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Tahm Kench and Kayle synergy build consist of Heartsteel, Solstice Sleigh, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Kayle than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 52.6% when playing alongside Kayle with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating 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 runes players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.6% win rate overall.
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