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.
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
The Tahm Kench Udyr synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Udyr, 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 Udyr. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Udyr helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Udyr, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Udyr doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Udyr on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Udyr.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Udyr on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Udyr does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench during teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Tahm Kench that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Udyr is a below average ally for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same side as Tahm Kench, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Udyr that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Udyr has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players must be careful when finding Udyr allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Tahm Kench players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Tahm Kench and Udyr together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Udyr ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to synergize with Udyr during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Tahm Kench and Udyr synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Udyr than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Udyr with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should equip 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 rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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