Garen with Kennen
How to Synergize Garen and Kennen
based on 662 Garen with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Garen with Kennen
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 Kennen Will Play
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Garen Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Garen in LoL
The Garen Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, 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 Kennen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kennen helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Kennen, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Kennen does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kennen.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Kennen on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Kennen does a decent job of covering Garen during team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Kennen
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Is Garen better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Kennen is a very typical companion for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 49.1%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Garen and Kennen that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be very careful when lining up Kennen comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Garen players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Garen and Kennen together, you will not be providing your team enough magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 synergize with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Garen and Kennen synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Kennen than with many other common builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 49.1% helping carry Kennen with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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