Tahm Kench with Sylas
How to Synergize Tahm Kench and Sylas
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Tahm Kench Sylas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tahm Kench and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Tahm Kench Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Tahm Kench in LoL
The Tahm Kench Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sylas helps Tahm Kench perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Sylas, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Sylas doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sylas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Sylas on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during team fights.
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Is Tahm Kench better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Sylas is a very typical teammate for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 51.4%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Tahm Kench and Sylas that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Sylas teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Tahm Kench and Sylas together, you will not be providing your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Sylas ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Tahm Kench and Sylas synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Sylas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench had an average winrate of 51.4% when playing alongside Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance 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 players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
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