Tahm Kench with Samira
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Samira
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Tahm Kench Samira Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Samira
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Samira
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.
Tahm Kench Samira Synergy Stats
How to Play with Samira as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Samira helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Samira, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This may indicate that Samira doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Samira 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 with Samira.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Samira on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Samira does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Samira?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Tahm Kench that will always be his best ally. However, Samira is a below average companion for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, she lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Tahm Kench and Samira that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Samira has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players should be careful when arranging Samira teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Tahm Kench and Samira together, you may not be giving your other allies much utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Samira ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to pair well with Samira during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Samira synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Samira than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Samira with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Tahm Kench players 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 runes players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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