Tahm Kench with Talon
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Talon
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Tahm Kench Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Talon
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Tahm Kench Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Talon helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked 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 Talon, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Talon supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Talon.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Talon on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Talon does a poor job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Talon?
There is no top companion for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Talon is a relatively poor ally for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same team as Tahm Kench, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 49.9%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Tahm Kench and Talon that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Talon has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players should be very careful when enlisting Talon teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Tahm Kench and Talon together, you will not be granting your other allies enough magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Talon ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to work well with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Tahm Kench and Talon synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Talon than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Talon with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Tahm Kench players should use 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 runes players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
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