Tahm Kench with Kalista
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Kalista
based on 776 Tahm Kench with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Tahm Kench Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kalista helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Kalista, he observes a noticable drop in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Kalista does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Kalista on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kalista. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kalista.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Kalista on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kalista does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during team fights.
Synergies between Tahm Kench and Kalista
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no one best champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Kalista is a very bad teammate for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same side as Tahm Kench, she lowers their win rate by -7.0% to 44.6%. This signals that there is a very bad synergy between Tahm Kench and Kalista that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kalista has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you should be very careful when finding Kalista allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Tahm Kench players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Tahm Kench and Kalista together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kalista ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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 to pair well with Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Tahm Kench and Kalista synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kalista than with many other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 44.6% when playing alongside Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the best 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 combinations we have analyed for Tahm Kench and Kalista pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.6% win rate overall.
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