Tahm Kench with Jarvan IV
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Jarvan IV
based on 1,137 Tahm Kench with Jarvan IV pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Jarvan IV Synergy Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV Will Play
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
Tahm Kench Jarvan IV Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jarvan IV as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Jarvan IV synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jarvan IV, 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 Jarvan IV. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jarvan IV helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench tries to synergize with Jarvan IV, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Jarvan IV provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Jarvan IV on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Jarvan IV. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Jarvan IV.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Jarvan IV on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Jarvan IV does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Jarvan IV?
There is no perfect companion for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Jarvan IV is a relatively poor companion for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same side as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 49.9%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Tahm Kench and Jarvan IV that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Jarvan IV has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be cautious when arranging Jarvan IV comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Tahm Kench players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Tahm Kench and Jarvan IV together, you will not be providing your team enough attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Jarvan IV ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to work well with Jarvan IV during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Tahm Kench and Jarvan IV synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Jarvan IV than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Jarvan IV with this build.
To have the highest chance 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Tahm Kench and Jarvan IV pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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