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.
The Garen Zeri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zeri, 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 Zeri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zeri helps Garen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is paired with Zeri, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Zeri helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Zeri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zeri.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Zeri on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Zeri does a poor job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Garen that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Zeri is a terrible teammate for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, they decreases their win rate by -5.2% to 43.5%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Garen and Zeri that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zeri has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players should be cautious when finding Zeri teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Garen and Zeri together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zeri ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to synergize with Zeri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Garen and Zeri synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Zeri than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 43.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zeri with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.5% winrate overall.
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