Tahm Kench with Neeko
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Neeko
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Tahm Kench Neeko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Neeko
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Neeko
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 Neeko Will Play
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Tahm Kench Neeko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Neeko as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Neeko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Neeko, 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 Neeko. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Neeko helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Neeko, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Neeko helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Neeko on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Neeko.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Neeko on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Neeko does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Neeko?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Neeko is a below average teammate for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same side as Tahm Kench, she decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 49.8%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Neeko that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Neeko has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Neeko teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Tahm Kench players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Tahm Kench and Neeko together, you may not be providing your side a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Neeko ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 to work well with Neeko during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Tahm Kench and Neeko synergy build include Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Neeko than with most other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when playing alongside Neeko with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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