Garen with Irelia
How to Synergize Garen and Irelia
based on 1,522 Garen with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Garen with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Garen Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Garen in LoL
The Garen Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Irelia helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Irelia, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Irelia doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Irelia.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Irelia on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of covering Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Irelia
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Is Garen better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no ideal companion for Garen that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Irelia is a very typical teammate for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, she increases their win rate by 0.3% to 49.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Garen and Irelia that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Irelia comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Garen and Irelia together, you may not be granting your side a lot of AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to work well with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Garen and Irelia synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Irelia than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Garen and Irelia pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
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