Garen with Zoe
How to Synergize Garen and Zoe
based on 1,705 Garen with Zoe pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Zoe Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Zoe
Tips for Playing as Garen with Zoe
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 Zoe Will Play
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
Garen Zoe Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zoe as Garen in LoL
The Garen Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zoe helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is an ally to Zoe, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This may indicate that Zoe helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Zoe 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 synergisticly with Zoe.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Zoe on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zoe does a poor job of covering Garen during teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Zoe
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Is Garen better when played alongside Zoe?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Zoe is a very typical teammate for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, she decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 48.6%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Garen and Zoe that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Zoe has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Zoe teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Garen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Garen and Zoe together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Zoe ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen to work well with Zoe during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Garen and Zoe synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Zoe than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when playing alongside Zoe with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating 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 rune sets players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% winrate overall.
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