Tahm Kench with Soraka
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Soraka
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Tahm Kench Soraka Synergy Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Tahm Kench Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Soraka helps Tahm Kench perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Soraka, he sees a sizeable uptick in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Soraka helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Soraka on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Soraka. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Soraka.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Soraka on the same side, he typically receives more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Soraka does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during teamfights.
Synergies between Tahm Kench and Soraka
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no one best ally for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, Soraka is a very typical teammate for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, she drops their win rate by -0.7% to 50.9%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Tahm Kench and Soraka that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Soraka has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Soraka comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Tahm Kench and Soraka together, you may not be giving your team enough sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Soraka teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to pair well with Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench and Soraka synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Soraka than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take 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 combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Soraka with Tahm Kench are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.