Tahm Kench with Nami
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Nami
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Tahm Kench Nami Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Nami
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Tahm Kench Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nami. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nami helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Nami, he sees a clear improvement in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Nami provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Nami on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nami.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Nami on the same team, he often receives more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Nami does a poor job of protecting Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Nami?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Nami is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, she lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 50.8%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Tahm Kench and Nami that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nami has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nami allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Tahm Kench and Nami together, you probably will not be giving your side enough attack damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Nami ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 work well with Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Tahm Kench and Nami synergy build include Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Nami than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 50.8% helping carry Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
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