Garen with Master Yi
How to Synergize Garen and Master Yi
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Garen Master Yi Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Master Yi
Tips for Playing as Garen with Master Yi
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 Master Yi Will Play
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
Garen Master Yi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Master Yi as Garen in LoL
The Garen Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Master Yi helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Master Yi, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Master Yi does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Master Yi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Master Yi.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Master Yi on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Master Yi does a decent job of covering Garen during team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Master Yi?
There is no top companion for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Master Yi is a very typical teammate for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 48.3%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Garen and Master Yi that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Master Yi has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Master Yi allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Garen and Master Yi together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of magic damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Master Yi ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to synergize with Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Garen and Master Yi synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Master Yi than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 48.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Master Yi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
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