Garen with Akshan
How to Synergize Garen and Akshan
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Garen Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Garen with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Garen Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Garen in LoL
The Garen Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 Akshan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akshan helps Garen perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Akshan, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Akshan does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Akshan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akshan.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Akshan on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Akshan does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no one best champion pairing for Garen that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Akshan is a below average teammate for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, they lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 46.4%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Garen and Akshan that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be careful when lining up Akshan comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Garen and Akshan together, you will not be providing your side enough magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Akshan ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen to work well with Akshan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Garen and Akshan synergy build include Trinity Force, Stridebreaker, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Garen used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Akshan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 46.4% helping carry Akshan with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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