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.
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
The Tahm Kench Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vladimir helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Vladimir, he sees a noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Vladimir does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Vladimir 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 Vladimir.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Vladimir on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Vladimir does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Vladimir is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 51.2%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Tahm Kench and Vladimir that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Vladimir teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Tahm Kench and Vladimir together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Vladimir ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to synergize with Vladimir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Tahm Kench and Vladimir synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Vladimir than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 51.2% helping carry Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating 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 runes players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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