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.
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
The Tahm Kench Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Orianna helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Orianna, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Orianna does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Orianna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Orianna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Orianna.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Orianna on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Orianna does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Orianna is a not very good teammate for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, she decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Tahm Kench and Orianna that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you should be very careful when arranging Orianna comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Tahm Kench and Orianna together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Orianna teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench in order to pair well with Orianna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Tahm Kench and Orianna synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Orianna than with many other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when playing alongside Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance 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 sets that we analyzed for Tahm Kench and Orianna pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
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