Xerath with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Xerath and Tahm Kench
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Xerath Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Tahm Kench
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath sees a large worsening 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 Xerath perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xerath is an ally to Tahm Kench, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Tahm Kench supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played together with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Xerath plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of covering Xerath in team fights.
Synergies between Xerath and Tahm Kench
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no one best champion pairing for Xerath that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Tahm Kench is a decent teammate for Xerath. By locking into the same team as Xerath, he increases their win rate by 1.6% to 52.2%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Xerath and Tahm Kench that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a much lower diffuclty than Xerath. That means Xerath players don't need to be cautious when arranging Tahm Kench teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Xerath players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Xerath and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Tahm Kench ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Xerath in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Xerath and Tahm Kench synergy build include Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average win rate of 52.2% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
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