Gnar with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Gnar and Tahm Kench
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Gnar Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Tahm Kench
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar 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, Gnar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tahm Kench helps Gnar perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Tahm Kench does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with 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 with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Tahm Kench does a decent job of protecting Gnar in teamfights.
Synergies between Gnar and Tahm Kench
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no perfect synergy for Gnar that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Tahm Kench is a very typical companion for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Gnar and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Tahm Kench allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Gnar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Tahm Kench together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their abilities.
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 will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Gnar and Tahm Kench synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 48.7% helping carry Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Gnar and Tahm Kench pairings, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Tahm Kench with Gnar are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.