Tahm Kench with Xayah
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Xayah
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Tahm Kench Xayah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Tahm Kench Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xayah helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is an ally to Xayah, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Xayah helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Xayah on the same team, 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 with Xayah.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Xayah on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Xayah does a poor job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no ideal ally for Tahm Kench that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Xayah is a below average ally for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, she lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Xayah that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Xayah has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Xayah teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Tahm Kench players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Tahm Kench and Xayah together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Xayah 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Tahm Kench to synergize with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Xayah synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Xayah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 49.9% helping carry Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating 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 builds players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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