Sona with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Sona and Tahm Kench
based on 1,450 Sona with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Sona with Tahm Kench
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
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.
Sona Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Sona in LoL
The Sona 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, Sona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Tahm Kench helps Sona perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This may signal that Tahm Kench supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of covering Sona in teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Tahm Kench
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Is Sona better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top champion pairing for Sona that will always be her ideal teammate. Yet, Tahm Kench is a decent companion for Sona. By locking into the same side as Sona, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 51.4%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Sona and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means you need to be careful when arranging Tahm Kench teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Sona and Tahm Kench together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Sona and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with many other common builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Sona players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Sona and Tahm Kench pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.4% winrate overall.
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