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How to Synergize Garen with Gragas on the Same TeamGaren is in the b tier of champions

Garen with Gragas

How to Win With Garen and Gragas Paired TogetherGaren is in the a tier of champions
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How to Synergize Garen and Gragas

based on 1,665 Garen with Gragas pairs
Win Rate
45.6 %
K/D/A
2.06
Pick Rate
1.2 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

We take in the stats from from millions of League matches straight from Riot Games each week. Garen has fought alongside Gragas in 1665 recent, competitive games. By amassing so much accurate data straight from the publishers of LoL, we feel confident that we can produce high-quality, accurate builds to help Garen synergize with Gragas. It is very rare for Garen to play with Gragas on the same side. This has only occurred in about 1.2% of rounds with Garen.

Garen Gragas Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Garen has done a awful job of synergizing with Gragas. Usually, he wins a lowly 45.6% of rounds the champs appear on the same team. If you want to win more matches as Garen when fighting on the same team as Gragas by figuring out how to better synergize your playstyle with him, then look into the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Garen vs Gragas Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Ruby CrystalLong Sword

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Trinity ForceDead Man's PlateStridebreaker

Optional Items

Phantom DancerSterak's GageBlack CleaverSundered Sky

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Garen to level upe
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Second ability for Garen to level upq
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Last skill for Garen to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Garen's passive ability p
Garen's q ability q
Garen's w ability w
Garen's e ability e
Garen's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
6
R
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E
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Q
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E
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Q
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R
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Q
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W
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R

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

Garen Image
Win Rate
45.6 %
VS
Win Rate
54.4 %
Gragas Image
6.3
< Kills >
6.1
5
< Deaths >
5.1
4
< Assists >
4
1.45
< Killing Sprees >
1.39
185
< Minions Killed >
177
0.09
< Dragons Killed >
0.11
0.6
< Inhibitors >
0.6
14,641
< Physical Damage >
14,138
207
< Magic Damage >
217
4,811
< True Damage >
4,716
19,659
< Damage Dealt >
19,071
32,058
< Damage Taken >
31,656
12,424
< Gold Earned >
12,134
2.82
< Towers >
2.76
0.02
< Baron Takedowns >
0.03
3,161
< Total Healing >
3,226
15,529
< Experience >
15,287
17
< Vision Score >
17
8
< Wards Placed >
8
143
< Time Dealing CC >
142

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

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Gragas
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Garen
Gragas

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.

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen Gragas Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Garen and Gragas, we analyzed 1,665 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Garen with Gragas comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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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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