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.
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
The Garen Elise synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Elise, 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 Elise. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Elise helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Elise, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Elise doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Elise on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Elise. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Elise.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Elise on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Elise does a decent job of protecting Garen in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Elise is a very bad teammate for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, she lowers their win rate by -3.6% to 45.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible synergy between Garen and Elise that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Elise has a much greater difficulty compared to Garen. That means you must be careful when arranging Elise comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Garen and Elise together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of support. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Elise ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Garen in order to pair well with Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Garen and Elise synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Elise than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 45.1% when playing alongside Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Garen players 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 builds players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.1% win rate overall.
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