Tahm Kench with Xerath
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Xerath
based on 2,971 Tahm Kench with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Xerath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Tahm Kench Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xerath helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench tries to synergize with Xerath, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Xerath supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Xerath 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 alongside Xerath.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Xerath on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Xerath is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, he improves their win rate by 0.6% to 52.2%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Xerath that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you should be careful when lining up Xerath comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Tahm Kench and Xerath together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of AD. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to synergize with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Tahm Kench and Xerath synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Xerath than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 52.2% when playing alongside Xerath with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Tahm Kench players 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 rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.2% winrate overall.
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