Sylas with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Sylas and Tahm Kench
based on 2,725 Sylas with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Tahm Kench
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas 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, Sylas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tahm Kench helps Sylas perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Tahm Kench helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside 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 with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of protecting Sylas in teamfights.
Synergies between Sylas and Tahm Kench
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no perfect synergy for Sylas that will always be his best ally. However, Tahm Kench is a good teammate for Sylas. By being on the same team as Sylas, he raises their win rate by 2.4% to 51.4%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Sylas and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Tahm Kench teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, Sylas players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Sylas and Tahm Kench together, you may not be giving your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench teammate, you need to 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
To truly master Sylas in order to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Sylas and Tahm Kench synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Sylas incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Sylas players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Sylas and Tahm Kench pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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