Vi with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Vi and Tahm Kench
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Vi Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Vi with Tahm Kench
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Vi in LoL
The Vi Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Tahm Kench helps Vi perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vi plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Tahm Kench provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Vi plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Vi during team fights.
Synergies between Vi and Tahm Kench
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Is Vi better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Vi that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Tahm Kench is a pretty good companion for Vi. By being on the same side as Vi, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 52.7%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Vi and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Vi. That means Vi players must be careful when finding Tahm Kench comrades 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.
Fighting on the same side, Vi players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Vi and Tahm Kench together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench ally, you should 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.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vi in order to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Vi and Tahm Kench synergy build include Black Cleaver, Experimental Hexplate, and Sundered Sky. When Vi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with most other common builds. In fact, Vi boasted an average win rate of 52.7% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Vi players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Tahm Kench with Vi are displayed for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.