Garen with Neeko
How to Synergize Garen and Neeko
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Garen Neeko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Neeko
Tips for Playing as Garen with Neeko
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 Neeko Will Play
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Garen Neeko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Neeko as Garen in LoL
The Garen Neeko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Neeko, 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 Neeko. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Neeko helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is paired with Neeko, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Neeko does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Neeko on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Neeko.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Neeko on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Neeko does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Neeko
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Is Garen better when played alongside Neeko?
There is no perfect companion for Garen that will always be his #1 ally. However, Neeko is a not very good ally for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, she drops their win rate by -1.6% to 47.1%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Garen and Neeko that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Neeko has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be very careful when lining up Neeko teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Garen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Garen and Neeko together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Neeko teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to pair well with Neeko during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Garen and Neeko synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Neeko than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 47.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Neeko with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Garen players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
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