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.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
The Tahm Kench Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zoe helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Zoe, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Zoe does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Zoe on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zoe. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zoe.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Zoe on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Zoe does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Zoe is a very bad ally for Tahm Kench. By locking into the same side as Tahm Kench, she drops their win rate by -3.8% to 47.8%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible synergy between Tahm Kench and Zoe that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zoe has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Zoe allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Tahm Kench and Zoe together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Zoe ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to pair well with Zoe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Zoe synergy build include Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Zoe than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 47.8% helping carry Zoe with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Tahm Kench players 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 combinations we have analyed for Tahm Kench and Zoe pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Zoe with Tahm Kench are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.