Tahm Kench with Varus
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Varus
based on 3,384 Tahm Kench with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Varus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Varus
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Tahm Kench Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Varus helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench tries to synergize with Varus, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Varus provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Varus 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 with Varus.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Varus on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Varus does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Varus?
There is no one best ally for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Varus is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 50.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Varus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Varus comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Tahm Kench players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Tahm Kench and Varus together, you may not be giving your team very much utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 pair well with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Varus synergy build include Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Varus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Varus with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Tahm Kench players 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 sets players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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