Tahm Kench with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Caitlyn
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Tahm Kench Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Tahm Kench Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Caitlyn helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Caitlyn, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This could indicate that Caitlyn supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Caitlyn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Caitlyn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Caitlyn on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Caitlyn does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Caitlyn is a below average ally for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same team as Tahm Kench, she decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 50.5%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Tahm Kench and Caitlyn that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players must be very careful when finding Caitlyn teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Tahm Kench players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Tahm Kench and Caitlyn together, you will not be providing your team a lot of magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Caitlyn ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Tahm Kench to synergize with Caitlyn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench and Caitlyn synergy build include Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Caitlyn than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 50.5% when playing alongside Caitlyn with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Tahm Kench and Caitlyn pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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