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.
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The Garen Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Garen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aatrox helps Garen perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Aatrox, he gets a measurable drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that Aatrox doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Aatrox on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aatrox.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Aatrox on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Aatrox does a decent job of protecting Garen in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Aatrox is a very typical ally for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Garen and Aatrox that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Aatrox has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Aatrox comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Garen and Aatrox together, you will not be providing your other teammates much AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Aatrox teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to work well with Aatrox during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Garen and Aatrox synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Aatrox than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aatrox with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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