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.
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
The Tahm Kench Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ryze helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Ryze, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Ryze does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ryze.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Ryze on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Ryze does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench in teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Ryze is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 51.6%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Tahm Kench and Ryze that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Ryze allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Tahm Kench and Ryze together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Tahm Kench in order to synergize with Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench and Ryze synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Ryze than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 51.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability 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 builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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