Galio with Garen
How to Synergize Galio and Garen
based on 3,123 Galio with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Galio Garen Synergy Summary
Best Galio vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Garen
Tips for Playing as Galio with Garen
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Galio in LoL
The Galio 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, Galio sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Galio perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Galio plays on the same team as Garen, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Garen supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Additionally, when Galio plays with Garen on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of covering Galio during team fights.
Synergies between Galio and Garen
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Is Galio better when played alongside Garen?
There is no one best champion pairing for Galio that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Garen is a relatively poor teammate for Galio. By locking into the same team as Galio, he decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Galio and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Galio. That means Galio players don't need to be very careful when finding Garen allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Galio and Garen together, you will not be providing your side much magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Galio in order to pair well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Galio and Garen synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Galio had an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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