Tahm Kench with Pyke
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Pyke
based on 2,122 Tahm Kench with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Pyke
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 Pyke Will Play
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Tahm Kench Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, 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 Pyke. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Pyke helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Pyke, he sees a sizeable uptick in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Pyke provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Pyke.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Pyke on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Pyke does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
Synergies between Tahm Kench and Pyke
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no top champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Pyke is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same side as Tahm Kench, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 51.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Tahm Kench and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you should be very careful when lining up Pyke comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Tahm Kench players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Tahm Kench and Pyke together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench and Pyke synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Pyke than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 51.0% when playing alongside Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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