Poppy with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Poppy and Tahm Kench
based on 897 Poppy with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Tahm Kench
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy sees a very large drop 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 Poppy perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, she observes a little decrease in her full damage output. This may signal that Tahm Kench does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Poppy during team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Tahm Kench
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Poppy that will always be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a good ally for Poppy. By playing on the same side as Poppy, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 51.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Poppy and Tahm Kench that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be careful when finding Tahm Kench comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Poppy players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by aligning Poppy and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Tahm Kench ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Poppy to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Poppy and Tahm Kench synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Poppy had an average winrate of 51.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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