Tahm Kench with Nasus
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Nasus
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Tahm Kench Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Nasus
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 Nasus Will Play
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Tahm Kench Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, 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 Nasus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nasus helps Tahm Kench perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Nasus, he sees a big decrease in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Nasus does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Nasus 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 alongside Nasus.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Nasus on the same side, he on average takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no perfect companion for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Nasus is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 52.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Tahm Kench and Nasus that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players need to be very careful when enlisting Nasus teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Tahm Kench and Nasus together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Nasus ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Tahm Kench to work well with Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Tahm Kench and Nasus synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Nasus than with most other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 52.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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