Alistar with Garen
How to Synergize Alistar and Garen
based on 1,957 Alistar with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Garen Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Garen
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Garen
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Garen, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Garen supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Garen.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Garen on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of covering Alistar during teamfights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Alistar that will always be his top ally. Yet, Garen is a terrible companion for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, he decreases their win rate by -3.8% to 45.6%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Alistar and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Alistar and Garen together, you may not be providing your team a lot of magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to pair well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Alistar and Garen synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Garen with Alistar are presented for every ranked division. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.