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.
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
The Tahm Kench Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Hecarim helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench tries to synergize with Hecarim, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Hecarim does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Hecarim. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Hecarim.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Hecarim on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Tahm Kench that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Hecarim is a not very good ally for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 50.2%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Tahm Kench and Hecarim that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Hecarim has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you must be careful when enlisting Hecarim comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Tahm Kench players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Tahm Kench and Hecarim together, you may not be providing your side much support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Hecarim ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench in order to synergize with Hecarim during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Tahm Kench and Hecarim synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Hecarim than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 50.2% helping carry Hecarim with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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