Tahm Kench with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Kog'Maw
based on 652 Tahm Kench with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Tahm Kench Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kog'Maw helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Kog'Maw, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Kog'Maw provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no ideal companion for Tahm Kench that will always be his best teammate. However, Kog'Maw is a very bad teammate for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same team as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 47.9%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Tahm Kench and Kog'Maw that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Kog'Maw teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Tahm Kench and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kog'Maw ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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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 Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Tahm Kench and Kog'Maw synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 rune builds we have analyed for Tahm Kench and Kog'Maw pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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