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.
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
The Tahm Kench Jayce synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jayce, 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 Jayce. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jayce helps Tahm Kench perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Jayce, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Jayce does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Jayce 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 Jayce.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Jayce on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Jayce does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench in team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Jayce is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 52.3%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Jayce that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Jayce has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players should be very careful when finding Jayce comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Tahm Kench and Jayce together, you may not be giving your team a lot of AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Jayce teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to synergize with Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Tahm Kench and Jayce synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Jayce than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 52.3% when playing alongside Jayce with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should take 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 sets players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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