Tahm Kench with Sona
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Sona
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Tahm Kench Sona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Sona
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Tahm Kench Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Sona helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Sona, he observes a clear improvement in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Sona provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Sona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sona.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Sona on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Sona does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Sona?
There is no perfect companion for Tahm Kench that will always be his ideal ally. However, Sona is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same side as Tahm Kench, she lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 51.4%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Sona that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be very careful when lining up Sona comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Tahm Kench players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by pairing Tahm Kench and Sona together, you probably will not be giving your side very much sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Sona ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 in order to pair well with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench and Sona synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Sona than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 51.4% helping carry Sona with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating 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. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Tahm Kench and Sona pairings, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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