Tahm Kench with Shen
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Shen
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Tahm Kench Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Shen
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Shen
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 Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Tahm Kench Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, 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 Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Shen helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Shen, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Shen doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Shen on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Shen does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Shen?
There is no one best champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Shen is a very typical ally for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 52.3%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Tahm Kench and Shen that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be very careful when arranging Shen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Tahm Kench and Shen together, you may not be granting your team much attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Tahm Kench in order to work well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench and Shen synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Shen than with most other common builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 52.3% when playing alongside Shen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing 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 sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.3% win rate overall.
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