Tahm Kench with Elise
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Elise
based on 642 Tahm Kench with Elise pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Elise Synergy Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Elise
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Elise
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 Elise Will Play
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
Tahm Kench Elise Synergy Stats
How to Play with Elise as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Elise synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Elise, 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 Elise. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Elise helps Tahm Kench perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Elise, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Elise does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Elise on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Elise. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Elise.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Elise on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Elise does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench in teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Elise?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Elise is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same team as Tahm Kench, she drops their win rate by -0.8% to 50.8%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Tahm Kench and Elise that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Elise has a much greater difficulty compared to Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players must be careful when arranging Elise teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Tahm Kench players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Tahm Kench and Elise together, you probably will not be providing your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Elise ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to work well with Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Tahm Kench and Elise synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Elise than with most other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 50.8% helping carry Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Elise with Tahm Kench are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.