Tahm Kench with Thresh
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Thresh
based on 2,194 Tahm Kench with Thresh pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Thresh Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Tahm Kench Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Thresh helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Thresh, he sees a sizeable uptick in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Thresh supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Thresh 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 alongside Thresh.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Thresh on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Thresh does a poor job of protecting Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no one best synergy for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Thresh is a below average companion for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Tahm Kench and Thresh that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Thresh has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you need to be very careful when finding Thresh teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Tahm Kench and Thresh together, you may not be providing your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Thresh teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Tahm Kench in order to pair well with Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Tahm Kench and Thresh synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Thresh than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 50.1% when playing alongside Thresh with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Tahm Kench players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Tahm Kench and Thresh pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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