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.
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
The Garen Jhin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jhin, 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 Jhin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jhin helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Jhin, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This could signal that Jhin supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Jhin 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 synergisticly with Jhin.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Jhin on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Jhin does a poor job of covering Garen during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Garen that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Jhin is a pretty good teammate for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he increases their win rate by 1.4% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is a good strategic relationship between Garen and Jhin that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Jhin has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you should be careful when arranging Jhin teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Garen players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Garen and Jhin together, you may not be granting your other allies enough crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Jhin ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to pair well with Jhin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Garen and Jhin synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Hullbreaker, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Jhin than with many other common builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 50.1% helping carry Jhin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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