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.
The Tahm Kench Vex synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vex, 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 Vex. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vex helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench tries to synergize with Vex, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Vex helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Vex 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 with Vex.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Vex on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Vex does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Vex is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, they raises their win rate by 0.4% to 52.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Tahm Kench and Vex that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Vex has a much lower diffuclty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be careful when arranging Vex allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by bringing Tahm Kench and Vex together, you will not be giving your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Vex ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Tahm Kench to pair well with Vex during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Tahm Kench and Vex synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Vex than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 52.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vex with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating 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. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Tahm Kench and Vex pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.0% win rate overall.
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