Tahm Kench with Skarner
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Skarner
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Tahm Kench Skarner Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Tahm Kench Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Skarner, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Skarner supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Skarner on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Skarner does a poor job of protecting Tahm Kench in teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no one best synergy for Tahm Kench that will always be his #1 ally. However, Skarner is a relatively poor ally for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 49.8%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be very careful when finding Skarner allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Tahm Kench players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Tahm Kench and Skarner together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 synergize with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Skarner synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Skarner than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should equip 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 players used for Tahm Kench and Skarner pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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