Tahm Kench with Riven
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Riven
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Tahm Kench Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Riven
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Tahm Kench Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Riven, he sees a big decrease in his full damage output. This may signal that Riven does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Riven on the same side, he usually takes less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top ally for Tahm Kench that will always be his #1 ally. However, Riven is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, she lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 50.7%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Tahm Kench and Riven that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you must be careful when arranging Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Tahm Kench and Riven together, you will not be providing your team very much AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Tahm Kench to pair well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Tahm Kench and Riven synergy build consist of Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Solstice Sleigh. When Tahm Kench included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating 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. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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