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.
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The Tahm Kench Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Tahm Kench sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aatrox helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Aatrox, he gets a large drop in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Aatrox doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Aatrox on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Aatrox. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aatrox.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Aatrox on the same team, he on average takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Aatrox does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Aatrox is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same side as Tahm Kench, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Aatrox that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Aatrox has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Aatrox comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Tahm Kench players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Tahm Kench and Aatrox together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Aatrox ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to synergize with Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Tahm Kench and Aatrox synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Solstice Sleigh. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Aatrox than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 52.5% helping carry Aatrox with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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