Garen with Gragas
How to Synergize Garen and Gragas
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Garen Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Garen with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Garen Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Garen in LoL
The Garen Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gragas helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is an ally to Gragas, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This could signal that Gragas supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Gragas on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Gragas does a poor job of protecting Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Gragas
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Is Garen better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no top synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Gragas is a very bad companion for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 45.6%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Garen and Gragas that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Gragas comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Garen and Gragas together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to work well with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Garen and Gragas synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Gragas than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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