Garen with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Garen and Lee Sin
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Garen Lee Sin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Garen with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Garen Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Garen in LoL
The Garen Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lee Sin helps Garen perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Lee Sin, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This change may signal that Lee Sin does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Lee Sin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Lee Sin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lee Sin.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Lee Sin on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Lee Sin does a decent job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Garen that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Lee Sin is a relatively poor teammate for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 46.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Garen and Lee Sin that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Lee Sin has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players must be cautious when finding Lee Sin comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Garen players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Garen and Lee Sin together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 to synergize with Lee Sin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Garen and Lee Sin synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Garen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Lee Sin than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 46.2% helping carry Lee Sin with this build.
To have the highest 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 that we analyzed for Garen and Lee Sin pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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