Tahm Kench with Kennen
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Kennen
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Tahm Kench Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Kennen
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 Kennen Will Play
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Tahm Kench Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, 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 Kennen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kennen helps Tahm Kench perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Kennen, he sees a noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Kennen doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kennen.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Kennen on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kennen does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
Synergies between Tahm Kench and Kennen
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no top ally for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Kennen is a good teammate for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, he increases their win rate by 1.0% to 52.6%. This proves that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Kennen that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Kennen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Tahm Kench and Kennen together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Tahm Kench in order to synergize with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Tahm Kench and Kennen synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kennen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing 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 chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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