Garen with Draven
How to Synergize Garen and Draven
based on 3,899 Garen with Draven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Draven Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Draven
Tips for Playing as Garen with Draven
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 Draven Will Play
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
Garen Draven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Draven as Garen in LoL
The Garen Draven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Draven, 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 Draven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Draven helps Garen perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen plays on the same team as Draven, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Draven does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Draven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Draven.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Draven on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Draven does a decent job of protecting Garen in teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Draven
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Is Garen better when played alongside Draven?
There is no one best champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Draven is a very typical ally for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 48.2%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Garen and Draven that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Draven has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players should be cautious when finding Draven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Garen and Draven together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Draven ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen to work well with Draven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Garen and Draven synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Garen bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Draven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Draven with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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