Garen with Kalista
How to Synergize Garen and Kalista
based on 1,144 Garen with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Garen with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Garen Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Garen in LoL
The Garen Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kalista helps Garen perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is paired with Kalista, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Kalista does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kalista. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kalista.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Kalista on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kalista does a decent job of protecting Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Kalista
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Is Garen better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Garen that will always be his best ally. However, Kalista is a terrible ally for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, she decreases their win rate by -6.0% to 42.7%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Garen and Kalista that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kalista has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Kalista comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Garen and Kalista together, you will not be providing your side enough utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to work well with Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Garen and Kalista synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Kalista than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 42.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.7% winrate overall.
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