Garen with Wukong
How to Synergize Garen and Wukong
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Garen Wukong Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Garen with Wukong
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.
Advice to Understand How Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Garen Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Garen in LoL
The Garen Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Wukong helps Garen perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Wukong, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Wukong supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Wukong on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Wukong.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Wukong on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Wukong does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Wukong
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Is Garen better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no one best champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Wukong is a below average teammate for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 46.6%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Garen and Wukong that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Wukong has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be cautious when lining up Wukong teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Garen players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Garen and Wukong together, you may not be providing your side a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Wukong ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to work well with Wukong during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Garen and Wukong synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Wukong than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 46.6% helping carry Wukong with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Garen and Wukong pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.6% win rate overall.
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