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.
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
The Garen Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kindred helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Kindred, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Kindred does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Kindred 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 alongside Kindred.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Kindred on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Garen that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Kindred is a not very good companion for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, they decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 47.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Garen and Kindred that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kindred has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Kindred teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Garen and Kindred together, you may not be providing your side enough AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Kindred teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Garen to pair well with Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Garen and Kindred synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Kindred than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Garen players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
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