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.
Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
The Garen Corki synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Corki, 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 Corki. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Corki helps Garen perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Corki, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Corki helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Corki on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Corki.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Corki on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Corki does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Garen that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Corki is a very bad ally for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -3.8% to 44.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible synergy between Garen and Corki that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Corki has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players must be very careful when enlisting Corki teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Garen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Garen and Corki together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Corki ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Garen to pair well with Corki during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Garen and Corki synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Corki than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 44.9% helping carry Corki with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Corki with Garen are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.