Tahm Kench with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Blitzcrank
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Tahm Kench Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Blitzcrank
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.
Advice to Understand How Blitzcrank Will Play
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Tahm Kench Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Blitzcrank. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Blitzcrank helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Blitzcrank, he sees a clear improvement in his full damage output. This change could signal that Blitzcrank provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Blitzcrank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Blitzcrank.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Blitzcrank on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Blitzcrank does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no perfect ally for Tahm Kench that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Blitzcrank is a very typical teammate for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 51.4%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Tahm Kench and Blitzcrank that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Blitzcrank has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Blitzcrank allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Tahm Kench and Blitzcrank together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Blitzcrank ally, you need to focus on increasing your 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 Tahm Kench in order to pair well with Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Tahm Kench and Blitzcrank synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Blitzcrank than with most other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Tahm Kench players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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