Tahm Kench with Kayn
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Kayn
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Tahm Kench Kayn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Tahm Kench Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayn helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench tries to synergize with Kayn, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may signal that Kayn supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Kayn on the same side, 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 with Kayn.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Kayn on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Kayn does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no ideal ally for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Kayn is a relatively poor ally for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same side as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 49.8%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Tahm Kench and Kayn that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players need to be careful when lining up Kayn allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Tahm Kench and Kayn together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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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 in order to work well with Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Tahm Kench and Kayn synergy build consist of Heartsteel, Solstice Sleigh, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Kayn than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when playing alongside Kayn with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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