Tahm Kench with Irelia
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Irelia
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Tahm Kench Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Tahm Kench Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Irelia helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Irelia, he observes a noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Irelia does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Irelia.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Irelia on the same side, he on average takes less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no perfect synergy for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Irelia is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, she improves their win rate by 0.5% to 52.1%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Tahm Kench and Irelia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Irelia comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Tahm Kench and Irelia together, you will not be giving your other allies very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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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 in order to pair well with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Irelia synergy build include Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Irelia than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 52.1% helping carry Irelia with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Tahm Kench and Irelia pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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