Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
The Annie Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Annie sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Annie perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie tries to synergize with Garen, she observes a little drop in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Garen doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Garen.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Garen on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Garen does a decent job of protecting Annie during teamfights.
There is no ideal synergy for Annie that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Garen is a relatively poor teammate for Annie. By being on the same team as Annie, he decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 46.8%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Annie and Garen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Garen allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Annie and Garen together, you may not be giving your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Annie to synergize with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Annie and Garen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Annie combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Garen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 46.8% helping carry Garen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Annie and Garen pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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