Tahm Kench with Swain
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Swain
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Tahm Kench Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Swain
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Tahm Kench Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Swain, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This may indicate that Swain does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Swain on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Swain does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench in teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Swain?
There is no one best champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Swain is a very typical teammate for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same team as Tahm Kench, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 52.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Tahm Kench and Swain that results in them performing better together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players must be very careful when arranging Swain allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Tahm Kench players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Tahm Kench and Swain together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much AD. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To truly master Tahm Kench to synergize with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Swain synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 52.2% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take 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 rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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