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.
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
The Tahm Kench Zyra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zyra, 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 Zyra. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zyra helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Zyra, he observes a clear improvement in his total damage output. This could signal that Zyra helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Zyra on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zyra.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Zyra on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Zyra does a poor job of covering Tahm Kench in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Zyra is a pretty good ally for Tahm Kench. By being on the same team as Tahm Kench, she raises their win rate by 2.9% to 54.5%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Tahm Kench and Zyra that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Zyra has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players need to be careful when finding Zyra allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Tahm Kench players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Tahm Kench and Zyra together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Zyra ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench in order to synergize with Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Tahm Kench and Zyra synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Zyra than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 54.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zyra with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Tahm Kench players should use 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 rune sets players picked for Tahm Kench and Zyra pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.5% winrate overall.
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