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.
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
The Tahm Kench Vayne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vayne, 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 Vayne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vayne helps Tahm Kench perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench plays on the same team as Vayne, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Vayne does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played with Vayne 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 alongside Vayne.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Vayne on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Vayne does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Vayne is a very typical companion for Tahm Kench. By being on the same side as Tahm Kench, she improves their win rate by 0.2% to 51.8%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Tahm Kench and Vayne that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Vayne has a greater difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you should be very careful when finding Vayne teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Tahm Kench players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Tahm Kench and Vayne together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Vayne ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Tahm Kench in order to pair well with Vayne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Vayne synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Solstice Sleigh. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Vayne than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when playing alongside Vayne with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Tahm Kench players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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