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.
Volcanic Rupture can be used to set up zoning areas to threaten enemies.
Learning build paths of items can help quickly select upgrades in lane.
The order of your abilties matters! Try to optimize Brittle usage.
The Tahm Kench Ornn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ornn, 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 Ornn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ornn helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Ornn, he gets a measurable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Ornn does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Ornn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ornn.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Ornn on the same team, he often takes less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Ornn does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench during teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Tahm Kench that will always be his best ally. However, Ornn is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 52.5%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Tahm Kench and Ornn that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Ornn has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Ornn teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Tahm Kench and Ornn together, you probably will not be providing your side enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Ornn teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to pair well with Ornn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Ornn synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Leviathan. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Ornn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 52.5% helping carry Ornn with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Tahm Kench players 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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