Draven with Garen
How to Synergize Draven and Garen
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Draven Garen Synergy Summary
Best Draven vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Draven and Garen
Tips for Playing as Draven with Garen
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play
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.
Draven Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Draven in LoL
The Draven Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Draven sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Draven perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Draven plays on the same team as Garen, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Garen doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Draven is played together with Garen 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 with Garen.
Additionally, when Draven plays with Garen on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of covering Draven during team fights.
Synergies between Draven and Garen
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Is Draven better when played alongside Garen?
There is no top champion pairing for Draven that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Garen is a not very good companion for Draven. By locking into the same side as Draven, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 48.2%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Draven and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Draven. That means Draven players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Garen teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Draven and Garen together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Draven in order to work well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Draven and Garen synergy build include Rapid Firecannon, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Draven included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Draven boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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