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 Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
The Tahm Kench Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Nocturne, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Nocturne helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Nocturne on the same team, 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 with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Nocturne on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench in teamfights.
There is no top companion for Tahm Kench that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Nocturne is a pretty good companion for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 53.6%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Tahm Kench and Nocturne that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nocturne teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Tahm Kench players 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 pairing Tahm Kench and Nocturne together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Nocturne ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to synergize with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Tahm Kench and Nocturne synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 53.6% helping carry Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Tahm Kench and Nocturne pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.6% winrate overall.
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