Zac with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Zac and Tahm Kench
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Zac Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Zac with Tahm Kench
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Zac in LoL
The Zac 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, Zac 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 Zac perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zac is paired with Tahm Kench, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Tahm Kench does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Zac plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of protecting Zac in teamfights.
Synergies between Zac and Tahm Kench
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Is Zac better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no one best ally for Zac that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Tahm Kench is a very typical ally for Zac. By playing on the same team as Zac, he improves their win rate by 0.2% to 52.0%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Zac and Tahm Kench that results in them performing better together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a much lower diffuclty than Zac. That means Zac players don't need to be cautious when lining up Tahm Kench teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Zac and Tahm Kench together, you will not be providing your team very much attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zac to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Zac and Tahm Kench synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Zac incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zac had an average win rate of 52.0% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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