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.
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
The Tahm Kench Rammus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rammus, 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 Rammus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rammus helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Rammus, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Rammus supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Rammus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rammus.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Rammus on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Rammus does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench in team fights.
There is no one best companion for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Rammus is a very typical teammate for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 51.8%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Tahm Kench and Rammus that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Rammus has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Rammus comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Tahm Kench players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Tahm Kench and Rammus together, you will not be providing your other allies very much AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Rammus ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Tahm Kench to work well with Rammus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Tahm Kench and Rammus synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Rammus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 51.8% when playing alongside Rammus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take 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 combinations that we analyzed for Tahm Kench and Rammus pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
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