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.
The Tahm Kench Qiyana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Qiyana, 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 Qiyana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Qiyana helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Qiyana, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Qiyana does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Qiyana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Qiyana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Qiyana.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Qiyana on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Qiyana does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
There is no top companion for Tahm Kench that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Qiyana is a very bad teammate for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same team as Tahm Kench, she drops their win rate by -3.4% to 48.2%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Tahm Kench and Qiyana that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Qiyana has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you should be careful when finding Qiyana teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Tahm Kench players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Tahm Kench and Qiyana together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Qiyana ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Tahm Kench to synergize with Qiyana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Tahm Kench and Qiyana synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Qiyana than with many other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when playing alongside Qiyana with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should equip 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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