Garen with Ivern
How to Synergize Garen and Ivern
based on 1,279 Garen with Ivern pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Ivern Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Ivern
Tips for Playing as Garen with Ivern
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 Ivern Will Play
Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!
Garen Ivern Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ivern as Garen in LoL
The Garen Ivern synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ivern, 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 Ivern. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ivern helps Garen perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Ivern, he observes a clear improvement in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Ivern helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Ivern on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ivern.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Ivern on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Ivern does a decent job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Ivern?
There is no perfect synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Ivern is a pretty good companion for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he increases their win rate by 1.8% to 50.5%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Garen and Ivern that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Ivern has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players need to be careful when finding Ivern allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Garen and Ivern together, you may not be granting your team a lot of support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Ivern teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 truly master Garen in order to work well with Ivern during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Garen and Ivern synergy build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Ivern than with most other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Ivern with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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