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.
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
The Tahm Kench Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shaco helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Shaco, he sees a noticable increase in his total damage output. This could signal that Shaco supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Shaco on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shaco. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shaco.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Shaco on the same team, he usually takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Tahm Kench in team fights.
There is no top companion for Tahm Kench that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Shaco is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same side as Tahm Kench, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Tahm Kench and Shaco that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players should be careful when finding Shaco allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Tahm Kench and Shaco together, you will not be giving your side much support. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Shaco ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to synergize with Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Shaco synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Shaco than with many other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 51.8% when playing alongside Shaco with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip 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 blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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