Alistar with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Alistar and Tahm Kench
based on 904 Alistar with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Tahm Kench
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Alistar perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Tahm Kench helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Tahm Kench
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no one best companion for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a decent teammate for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, he increases their win rate by 2.6% to 52.0%. This proves that there is a good bond between Alistar and Tahm Kench that results in them performing better together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be careful when finding Tahm Kench teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Alistar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Alistar and Tahm Kench together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Alistar and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with most other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 52.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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