Tahm Kench with Volibear
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Volibear
based on 996 Tahm Kench with Volibear pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Volibear Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Volibear
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.
Tahm Kench Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Volibear helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Volibear, he gets a noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Volibear does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Volibear on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Volibear.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Volibear on the same side, he typically takes less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Volibear does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Volibear is a relatively poor companion for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same side as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Tahm Kench and Volibear that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Volibear has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Volibear comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Tahm Kench and Volibear together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Volibear ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to synergize with Volibear during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Tahm Kench and Volibear synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Volibear than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Volibear with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing 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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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