Tahm Kench with Rakan
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Rakan
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Tahm Kench Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Tahm Kench Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rakan helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Rakan, he gets a noticable increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Rakan supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Rakan on the same team, 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 Rakan.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Rakan on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Rakan does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Rakan is a not very good companion for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same side as Tahm Kench, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Rakan that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Rakan allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Tahm Kench and Rakan together, you probably will not be giving your team enough attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to synergize with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Tahm Kench and Rakan synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating 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 runes players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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