Shaco with Garen
How to Synergize Shaco and Garen
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Shaco Garen Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Garen
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Garen
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play
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.
Shaco Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shaco sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Shaco perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco is paired with Garen, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Garen does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Garen on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Garen does a decent job of protecting Shaco in team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Garen
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Garen?
There is no top companion for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Garen is a very typical companion for Shaco. By playing on the same side as Shaco, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 48.8%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Shaco and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Garen comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Shaco players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Shaco and Garen together, you will not be granting your side a lot of support. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to work well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Shaco and Garen synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Garen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Shaco players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Shaco and Garen pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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