Taric with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Taric and Tahm Kench
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Taric Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Taric and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Taric with Tahm Kench
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Advice to Understand How Tahm Kench Will Play
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.
Taric Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Taric in LoL
The Taric Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Taric sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tahm Kench helps Taric perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taric is an ally to Tahm Kench, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Tahm Kench supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Taric plays with Tahm Kench 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 Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Taric in team fights.
Synergies between Taric and Tahm Kench
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Is Taric better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Taric that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Tahm Kench is a very typical ally for Taric. By locking into the same side as Taric, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Taric and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Taric. That means you should be careful when lining up Tahm Kench allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Taric players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Taric and Tahm Kench together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Taric to work well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Taric and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with most other common builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
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