Samira with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Samira and Tahm Kench
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Samira Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Samira and Tahm Kench
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.
Samira Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Samira in LoL
The Samira 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, Samira sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tahm Kench helps Samira perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Samira tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, she observes a little drop in her full damage output. This may indicate that Tahm Kench does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played together with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Samira plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of protecting Samira during teamfights.
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Is Samira better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no ideal ally for Samira that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Tahm Kench is a decent companion for Samira. By locking into the same side as Samira, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Samira and Tahm Kench that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Samira. That means Samira players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Tahm Kench teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Samira and Tahm Kench together, you may not be giving your other allies enough crowd control. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 truly master Samira in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Samira and Tahm Kench synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with most other typical builds. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Samira players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Samira and Tahm Kench pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
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