Xin Zhao with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Tahm Kench
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Xin Zhao Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Tahm Kench
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.
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.
Xin Zhao Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao 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, Xin Zhao 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 Xin Zhao perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Tahm Kench does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Tahm Kench does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao in teamfights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Tahm Kench is a good ally for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, he raises their win rate by 1.2% to 52.1%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Xin Zhao and Tahm Kench that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Tahm Kench teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Xin Zhao and Tahm Kench together, you will not be providing your side very much support. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Tahm Kench ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao to work well with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Xin Zhao and Tahm Kench synergy build include Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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