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.
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
The Tahm Kench Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Tahm Kench sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gnar helps Tahm Kench perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Gnar, he observes a moderate decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Gnar doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Gnar on the same side, he often takes less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Gnar does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during team fights.
There is no top companion for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Gnar is a relatively poor ally for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, he drops their win rate by -2.9% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Tahm Kench and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players need to be very careful when lining up Gnar teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Tahm Kench and Gnar together, you may not be giving your side much attack damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Tahm Kench to synergize with Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Tahm Kench and Gnar synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Solstice Sleigh. When Tahm Kench included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Gnar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 48.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Tahm Kench players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Tahm Kench and Gnar pairings, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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