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.
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
The Tahm Kench Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, 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 Nautilus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nautilus helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Nautilus, he observes a noticable increase in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Nautilus helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nautilus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nautilus.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Nautilus on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Nautilus does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
There is no top synergy for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Nautilus is a very bad ally for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -4.6% to 47.0%. This signals that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Nautilus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players need to be careful when enlisting Nautilus comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Tahm Kench and Nautilus together, you will not be granting your other allies much sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to work well with Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Tahm Kench and Nautilus synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Tahm Kench included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Nautilus than with most other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 47.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should use 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 rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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