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.
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
The Garen Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, 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 Galio. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Galio helps Garen perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is paired with Galio, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This may signal that Galio helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Galio on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Galio.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Galio on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Galio does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Garen that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Galio is a very typical ally for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 47.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Garen and Galio that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Galio has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be careful when enlisting Galio allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Garen and Galio together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of magic damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Galio ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to pair well with Galio during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Garen and Galio synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Galio than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Galio with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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