Garen with Zac
How to Synergize Garen and Zac
based on 2,281 Garen with Zac pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Zac Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Zac
Tips for Playing as Garen with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Garen Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Garen in LoL
The Garen Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zac helps Garen perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Zac, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Zac supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Zac 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 alongside Zac.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Zac on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zac does a poor job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Zac?
There is no perfect ally for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Zac is a good teammate for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 49.8%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Garen and Zac that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Zac has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Zac allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Garen and Zac together, you may not be giving your other allies enough crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Zac ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Zac during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Garen and Zac synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Zac than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 49.8% when playing alongside Zac with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Garen and Zac pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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