Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
The Ahri 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, Ahri sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tahm Kench helps Ahri perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ahri is an ally to Tahm Kench, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Tahm Kench provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ahri is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Ahri plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Ahri in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Ahri that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a pretty good companion for Ahri. By locking into the same side as Ahri, he improves their win rate by 2.0% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a good bond between Ahri and Tahm Kench that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Ahri. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Tahm Kench comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Ahri and Tahm Kench together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Ahri and Tahm Kench synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with most other common builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Ahri and Tahm Kench pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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