Tahm Kench with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Xin Zhao
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Tahm Kench Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Tahm Kench Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Xin Zhao, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Xin Zhao does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no top companion for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Xin Zhao is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 52.1%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Tahm Kench and Xin Zhao that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be very careful when finding Xin Zhao teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Tahm Kench players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Tahm Kench and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of support. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Tahm Kench and Xin Zhao synergy build include Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 52.1% helping carry Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.1% winrate overall.
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