Garen with Aphelios
How to Synergize Garen and Aphelios
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Garen Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Garen with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Garen Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Garen in LoL
The Garen Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aphelios helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Aphelios, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This could signal that Aphelios does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Aphelios on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Garen in teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no top companion for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Aphelios is a very typical teammate for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 48.0%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Garen and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Garen. That means you should be cautious when arranging Aphelios comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Garen and Aphelios together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to work well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Garen and Aphelios synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 48.0% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing 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 rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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