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.
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
The Tahm Kench Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nidalee helps Tahm Kench perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Nidalee, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Nidalee does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Nidalee on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a very bad ally for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, she lowers their win rate by -4.0% to 47.6%. This signals that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players should be very careful when finding Nidalee allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Tahm Kench and Nidalee together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Tahm Kench to synergize with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Nidalee synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nidalee with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Tahm Kench and Nidalee pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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