Garen with Katarina
How to Synergize Garen and Katarina
based on 4,319 Garen with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Garen with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Garen Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Garen in LoL
The Garen Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Garen perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is an ally to Katarina, he observes a little drop in his full damage output. This change could signal that Katarina does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Katarina on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Katarina is a relatively poor companion for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, she lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 47.1%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Garen and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players should be very careful when finding Katarina comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Garen and Katarina together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to synergize with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Garen and Katarina synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Garen included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 47.1% helping carry Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Garen players should equip 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 Garen and Katarina pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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