Tahm Kench with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Rek'Sai
based on 413 Tahm Kench with Rek'Sai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Tahm Kench Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rek'Sai helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench tries to synergize with Rek'Sai, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Rek'Sai does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Rek'Sai 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 alongside Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Rek'Sai on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Rek'Sai does a poor job of protecting Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no top companion for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Rek'Sai is a terrible teammate for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -4.4% to 47.2%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Tahm Kench and Rek'Sai that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Rek'Sai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Tahm Kench and Rek'Sai together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Rek'Sai ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 to work well with Rek'Sai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Rek'Sai synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Rek'Sai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 47.2% helping carry Rek'Sai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood 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 that we analyzed for Tahm Kench and Rek'Sai pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
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