Zed with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Zed and Tahm Kench
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Zed Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Zed with Tahm Kench
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Understand How Tahm Kench Will Play
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.
Zed Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Zed in LoL
The Zed Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tahm Kench helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Tahm Kench supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Zed during teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Tahm Kench
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Is Zed better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top ally for Zed that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Tahm Kench is a superb teammate for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, he improves their win rate by 3.2% to 51.6%. This demonstrates that there is an important bond between Zed and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Tahm Kench allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Zed players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Zed and Tahm Kench together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed in order to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Zed and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 51.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. 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 51.6% win rate overall.
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