Illaoi with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Illaoi and Tahm Kench
based on 698 Illaoi with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Tahm Kench
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her 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 Illaoi perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi is an ally to Tahm Kench, she observes a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Tahm Kench does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Illaoi during teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Tahm Kench
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Illaoi that will always be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a decent teammate for Illaoi. By being on the same team as Illaoi, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Illaoi and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players should be very careful when finding Tahm Kench teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Illaoi players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Illaoi and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of support. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Illaoi and Tahm Kench synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Illaoi and Tahm Kench pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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