Tahm Kench with Malzahar
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Malzahar
based on 2,928 Tahm Kench with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Malzahar
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 Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Tahm Kench Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malzahar helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Malzahar, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Malzahar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Malzahar on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Tahm Kench in teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Malzahar is a below average companion for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same team as Tahm Kench, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 50.3%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Tahm Kench and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players should be cautious when enlisting Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Tahm Kench and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your team very much attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Tahm Kench in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Tahm Kench and Malzahar synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Tahm Kench included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 50.3% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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