Tahm Kench with Zed
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Zed
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Tahm Kench Zed Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Zed
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Tahm Kench Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench tries to synergize with Zed, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Zed helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Zed on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Zed is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 51.6%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Tahm Kench and Zed that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Zed allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Tahm Kench and Zed together, you may not be granting your side much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to pair well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Tahm Kench and Zed synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Tahm Kench used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 51.6% helping carry Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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