Thresh with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Thresh and Tahm Kench
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Thresh Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Tahm Kench
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Thresh perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is paired with Tahm Kench, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Tahm Kench does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Tahm Kench 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 with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Thresh in team fights.
Synergies between Thresh and Tahm Kench
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top champion pairing for Thresh that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Tahm Kench is a decent companion for Thresh. By playing on the same side as Thresh, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 50.1%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Thresh and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Tahm Kench teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Thresh players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Thresh and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Tahm Kench ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 Thresh in order to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Thresh and Tahm Kench synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Thresh and Tahm Kench pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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