Kennen with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Kennen and Tahm Kench
based on 625 Kennen with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Tahm Kench
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
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.
Kennen Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen 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, Kennen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Tahm Kench helps Kennen perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is paired with Tahm Kench, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Tahm Kench does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of protecting Kennen in team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Tahm Kench
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kennen that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Tahm Kench is a fantastic ally for Kennen. By locking into the same side as Kennen, he improves their win rate by 4.0% to 52.6%. This proves that there is a very strong synergy between Kennen and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you must be cautious when finding Tahm Kench allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Kennen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kennen and Tahm Kench together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Kennen and Tahm Kench synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 52.6% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Kennen players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Kennen and Tahm Kench pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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