Garen with Ahri
How to Synergize Garen and Ahri
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Garen Ahri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Ahri
Tips for Playing as Garen with Ahri
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 Ahri Will Play
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Garen Ahri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ahri as Garen in LoL
The Garen Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, 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 Ahri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ahri helps Garen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is an ally to Ahri, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Ahri provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Ahri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ahri.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Ahri on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Ahri does a poor job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Ahri?
There is no top champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Ahri is a not very good companion for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, she drops their win rate by -1.7% to 47.0%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Garen and Ahri that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Ahri has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be careful when enlisting Ahri teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Garen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Garen and Ahri together, you may not be giving your other allies much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Ahri ally's skill level, you need to 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to pair well with Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Garen and Ahri synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Ahri than with most other common builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 47.0% helping carry Ahri with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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