Tahm Kench with Maokai
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Maokai
based on 2,309 Tahm Kench with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Tahm Kench Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Maokai, he observes a noticable increase in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Maokai supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
Synergies between Tahm Kench and Maokai
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal synergy for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Maokai is a good companion for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, he improves their win rate by 2.2% to 53.8%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Tahm Kench and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Tahm Kench and Maokai together, you probably will not be giving your side very much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench and Maokai synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 53.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.8% winrate overall.
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