Tahm Kench with Gwen
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Gwen
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Tahm Kench Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Gwen
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.
Advice to Understand How Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Tahm Kench Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gwen helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Gwen, he gets a pretty big loss in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Gwen doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gwen.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Gwen on the same team, he often takes less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Gwen does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench in teamfights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Gwen is a relatively poor companion for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, she lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 49.7%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Tahm Kench and Gwen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be careful when arranging Gwen teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Tahm Kench players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Tahm Kench and Gwen together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to pair well with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Gwen synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Solstice Sleigh. When Tahm Kench included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Gwen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use 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 builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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