Jax with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Jax and Tahm Kench
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Jax Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Jax with Tahm Kench
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Jax in LoL
The Jax 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, Jax 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 worsening shows that Tahm Kench helps Jax perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jax plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, he observes a little decrease in his full 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 Jax is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Jax plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Jax in teamfights.
Synergies between Jax and Tahm Kench
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Is Jax better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no one best synergy for Jax that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Tahm Kench is a pretty good companion for Jax. By being on the same team as Jax, he raises their win rate by 2.7% to 53.5%. This shows that there is a somewhat important synergy between Jax and Tahm Kench that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Jax. That means Jax players don't need to be careful when arranging Tahm Kench teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, Jax players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Jax and Tahm Kench together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Jax to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Jax and Tahm Kench synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jax bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Jax boasted an average winrate of 53.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.5% winrate overall.
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