Nami with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Nami and Tahm Kench
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Nami Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Nami with Tahm Kench
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Nami in LoL
The Nami 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, Nami sees a very large drop in her 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 Nami perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami is an ally to Tahm Kench, she sees a small increase in her full damage dealt. This could indicate that Tahm Kench supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nami 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 alongside Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of covering Nami during team fights.
Synergies between Nami and Tahm Kench
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Is Nami better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nami that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. However, Tahm Kench is a pretty good ally for Nami. By being on the same team as Nami, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 50.8%. This proves that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Nami and Tahm Kench that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Nami. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Tahm Kench allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Nami and Tahm Kench together, you will not be providing your other teammates much sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 truly master Nami to work well with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Nami and Tahm Kench synergy build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Nami included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 50.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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