Garen with Gwen
How to Synergize Garen and Gwen
based on 803 Garen with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Garen with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Garen Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Garen in LoL
The Garen Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gwen helps Garen perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Gwen, he sees a measurable drop in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Gwen does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Gwen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gwen.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Gwen on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Gwen does a decent job of covering Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Gwen
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Is Garen better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no top synergy for Garen that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Gwen is a pretty good teammate for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, she improves their win rate by 1.4% to 50.1%. This proves that there is a good strategic relationship between Garen and Gwen that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Gwen teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Garen and Gwen together, you may not be granting your team much magic damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gwen ally, you should focus on increasing 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to pair well with Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Garen and Gwen synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Gwen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 50.1% helping carry Gwen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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