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.
Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
The Garen Dr. Mundo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Dr. Mundo, 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 Dr. Mundo. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Dr. Mundo helps Garen perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Dr. Mundo, he observes a little drop in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Dr. Mundo doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Dr. Mundo 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 Dr. Mundo.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Dr. Mundo on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Dr. Mundo does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Garen that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Dr. Mundo is a very typical ally for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 48.6%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Garen and Dr. Mundo that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Dr. Mundo has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be cautious when lining up Dr. Mundo comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Garen and Dr. Mundo together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Dr. Mundo teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to work well with Dr. Mundo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Garen and Dr. Mundo synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Dr. Mundo than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 48.6% helping carry Dr. Mundo with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Garen and Dr. Mundo pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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