Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
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.
The Corki 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, Corki 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 drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Corki perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Corki is an ally to Tahm Kench, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Tahm Kench provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Corki is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same team, 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 Corki plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of covering Corki in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Corki that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Tahm Kench is a very typical teammate for Corki. By playing on the same team as Corki, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 48.5%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Corki and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Corki. That means Corki players don't need to be very careful when lining up Tahm Kench teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Corki and Tahm Kench together, you may not be granting your team enough utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Corki in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Corki and Tahm Kench synergy build include Muramana, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Corki combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Corki had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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