Darius with Garen
How to Synergize Darius and Garen
based on 877 Darius with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Darius Garen Synergy Summary
Best Darius vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Garen
Tips for Playing as Darius with Garen
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Darius perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Darius plays on the same team as Garen, he observes a noticable drop in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Garen does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Garen.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Garen on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Darius in team fights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Garen?
There is no one best companion for Darius that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Garen is a very bad ally for Darius. By playing on the same team as Darius, he drops their win rate by -3.2% to 46.0%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Darius and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Darius. That means Darius players need to be cautious when enlisting Garen allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Darius and Garen together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Darius to synergize with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Darius and Garen synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Darius used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Garen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 46.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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