Tahm Kench with Olaf
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Olaf
based on 367 Tahm Kench with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Tahm Kench Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Olaf helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Olaf, he sees a noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Olaf doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Olaf.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Olaf on the same side, he on average takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no perfect ally for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Olaf is a very typical teammate for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same side as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 50.7%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Tahm Kench and Olaf that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Olaf comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Tahm Kench and Olaf together, you may not be giving your team a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Olaf teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Tahm Kench in order to work well with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Tahm Kench and Olaf synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Riftmaker. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Olaf than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Olaf with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should take 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 runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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