Talon with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Talon and Tahm Kench
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Talon Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Talon with Tahm Kench
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Advice to Understand How Tahm Kench Will Play
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.
Talon Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Talon in LoL
The Talon Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Talon sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Tahm Kench helps Talon perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Talon is an ally to Tahm Kench, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Tahm Kench helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played with Tahm Kench on the same side, 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 with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Talon plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Talon during team fights.
Synergies between Talon and Tahm Kench
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Is Talon better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no one best synergy for Talon that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Tahm Kench is a very typical companion for Talon. By locking into the same side as Talon, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Talon and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Talon. That means Talon players don't need to be very careful when arranging Tahm Kench teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Talon players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Talon and Tahm Kench together, you may not be providing your side very much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Talon in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Talon and Tahm Kench synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Talon incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Talon players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Tahm Kench with Talon are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.