Katarina with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Katarina and Tahm Kench
based on 3,042 Katarina with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Tahm Kench
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina 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 drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is an ally to Tahm Kench, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Tahm Kench doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Tahm Kench
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top ally for Katarina that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Tahm Kench is a decent ally for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 50.0%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Katarina and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Tahm Kench comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Katarina and Tahm Kench together, you may not be granting your side much support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Tahm Kench teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Katarina in order to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Katarina and Tahm Kench synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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