Garen with Illaoi
How to Synergize Garen and Illaoi
based on 375 Garen with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Garen with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Garen Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Garen in LoL
The Garen Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Illaoi helps Garen perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Illaoi, he observes a moderate decrease in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Illaoi doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Illaoi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Illaoi.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Illaoi on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Garen during team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Illaoi
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Is Garen better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no one best ally for Garen that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Illaoi is a terrible teammate for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, she lowers their win rate by -5.0% to 43.7%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Garen and Illaoi that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Illaoi allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Garen and Illaoi together, you may not be giving your team very much AP. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Illaoi teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to synergize with Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Garen and Illaoi synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Illaoi than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 43.7% helping carry Illaoi with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Garen and Illaoi pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 43.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Illaoi with Garen are given for all ranked divisions. To filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.