Varus with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Varus and Tahm Kench
based on 3,384 Varus with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Varus Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Varus with Tahm Kench
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Tahm Kench helps Varus perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Varus plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Tahm Kench supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Varus in teamfights.
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Is Varus better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no ideal synergy for Varus that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Tahm Kench is a decent companion for Varus. By being on the same team as Varus, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Varus and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Varus. That means Varus players need to be very careful when finding Tahm Kench teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Varus and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Varus to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Varus and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Muramana, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Varus used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with many other common builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Varus players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Varus and Tahm Kench pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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