Garen with Bard
How to Synergize Garen and Bard
based on 3,454 Garen with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Bard
Tips for Playing as Garen with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Garen Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Garen in LoL
The Garen Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Garen perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Bard, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Bard provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Bard on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top synergy for Garen that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Bard is a good ally for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he increases their win rate by 2.6% to 51.3%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Garen and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Garen. That means you must be careful when arranging Bard allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Garen and Bard together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of AP. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Garen and Bard synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Bard with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Bard with Garen are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.