Tahm Kench with Zilean
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Zilean
based on 683 Tahm Kench with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tahm Kench Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Tahm Kench Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench tries to synergize with Zilean, he observes a noticable increase in his full damage output. This may signal that Zilean provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Zilean 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 alongside Zilean.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Zilean on the same team, he typically receives more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench in team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no perfect ally for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Zilean is a relatively poor companion for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 50.1%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Tahm Kench and Zilean that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you need to be cautious when finding Zilean comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Tahm Kench and Zilean together, you may not be providing your side much attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench in order to pair well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Tahm Kench and Zilean synergy build include Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Zilean than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Tahm Kench players should use 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 Zilean pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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