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.
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
The Tahm Kench Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, 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 Janna. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Janna helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Janna, he gets a big jump in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Janna provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Janna 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 Janna.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Janna on the same team, he often receives more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Janna does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Janna is a very typical teammate for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, she raises their win rate by 0.8% to 52.4%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Tahm Kench and Janna that results in them performing better together than alone.
Janna has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Janna allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by aligning Tahm Kench and Janna together, you probably will not be giving your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Janna ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to pair well with Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Tahm Kench and Janna synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Janna than with most other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 52.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Tahm Kench players should use 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 runes that we analyzed for Tahm Kench and Janna pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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