Garen with Alistar
How to Synergize Garen and Alistar
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Garen Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Garen with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
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.
Garen Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Garen in LoL
The Garen Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Garen perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Alistar, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Alistar provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Alistar on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Garen in teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no perfect synergy for Garen that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Alistar is a very bad companion for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 45.6%. This shows that there is a very bad bond between Garen and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players need to be cautious when finding Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Garen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Garen and Alistar together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to synergize with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Garen and Alistar synergy build include Hullbreaker, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Alistar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 45.6% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.6% win rate overall.
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