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.
Fizz's spells scale off Ability Power - consider getting items like Zhonya's Hourglass or Banshee's Veil against teams that have high burst threat - and items like Lich Bane or Rabadon's Deathcap if you think you can survive without the Health.
Since Fizz can move through units, find opportunities in lane to walk through minions and apply Seastone Trident's passive - following it up with the ability's active attack after a few seconds.
Fizz's ultimate ability, Chum the Waters, can be aimed at an enemy or towards the area where you think they'll be going.
The Garen Fizz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Fizz, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Fizz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Fizz helps Garen perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Fizz, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Fizz provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Fizz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Fizz.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Fizz on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Fizz does a poor job of protecting Garen during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Fizz is a pretty good companion for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, he increases their win rate by 1.6% to 50.3%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Garen and Fizz that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Fizz has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players should be cautious when arranging Fizz teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Garen and Fizz together, you probably will not be providing your side very much crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Fizz ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Garen in order to work well with Fizz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Garen and Fizz synergy build include Dead Man's Plate, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Fizz than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 50.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Fizz with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Overgrowth, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% win rate overall.
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