Tahm Kench with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Vel'Koz
based on 1,601 Tahm Kench with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Tahm Kench Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Vel'Koz, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Vel'Koz helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Vel'Koz 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 Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same side as Tahm Kench, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 51.5%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Tahm Kench and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players should be careful when lining up Vel'Koz allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Tahm Kench and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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
To truly master Tahm Kench to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench and Vel'Koz synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you 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 rune sets players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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