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.
The Tahm Kench Yuumi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yuumi, 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 Yuumi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yuumi helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench tries to synergize with Yuumi, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Yuumi helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played together with Yuumi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yuumi.
Additionally, when Tahm Kench plays with Yuumi on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Yuumi does a decent job of protecting Tahm Kench during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Tahm Kench that will always be his best teammate. However, Yuumi is a terrible ally for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same team as Tahm Kench, she decreases their win rate by -7.0% to 44.6%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible bond between Tahm Kench and Yuumi that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Yuumi has a much lower diffuclty than Tahm Kench. That means Tahm Kench players don't need to be cautious when arranging Yuumi comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by pairing Tahm Kench and Yuumi together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Yuumi ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Tahm Kench to work well with Yuumi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Tahm Kench and Yuumi synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Tahm Kench included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Yuumi than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 44.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yuumi with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you 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 runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Yuumi with Tahm Kench are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.