Garen with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Garen and Caitlyn
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Garen Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Garen with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Garen Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Garen in LoL
The Garen Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Caitlyn helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Caitlyn, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This may indicate that Caitlyn does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Caitlyn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Caitlyn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Caitlyn on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Garen during team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Garen that will always be his top synergy. However, Caitlyn is a relatively poor companion for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, she drops their win rate by -1.4% to 47.3%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Garen and Caitlyn that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Caitlyn teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Garen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Garen and Caitlyn together, you will not be providing your side very much magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Caitlyn teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen to synergize with Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Garen and Caitlyn synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Caitlyn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when playing alongside Caitlyn with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.3% win rate overall.
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