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.
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
The Tahm Kench Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Graves, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This could signal that Graves does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Graves on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Graves is a pretty good teammate for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same side as Tahm Kench, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 53.6%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Graves that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Graves allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, Tahm Kench players should witness 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.
Although, by aligning Tahm Kench and Graves together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Tahm Kench in order to synergize with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench and Graves synergy build include Heartsteel, Solstice Sleigh, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Graves than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 53.6% when playing alongside Graves with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Tahm Kench players should use 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.6% winrate overall.
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