Graves with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Graves and Tahm Kench
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Graves Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Graves with Tahm Kench
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves 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 negative change shows that Tahm Kench helps Graves perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is an ally to Tahm Kench, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Tahm Kench does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same team, 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.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no perfect synergy for Graves that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a superb teammate for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, he increases their win rate by 3.1% to 53.6%. This shows that there is an important strategic relationship between Graves and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players should be very careful when lining up Tahm Kench comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Graves and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Graves and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Maw of Malmortius, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 53.6% helping carry Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.6% win rate overall.
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