Garen with Naafiri
How to Synergize Garen and Naafiri
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Garen Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Garen with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Garen Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Garen in LoL
The Garen Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Naafiri helps Garen perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Naafiri, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This may indicate that Naafiri doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Naafiri on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Naafiri.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Naafiri on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Naafiri does a decent job of covering Garen in teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no ideal synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Naafiri is a very typical companion for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, they decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 48.2%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Garen and Naafiri that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Naafiri allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Garen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Garen and Naafiri together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen in order to synergize with Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Garen and Naafiri synergy build include Black Cleaver, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Naafiri than with most other common builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Naafiri with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Garen players should use 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 this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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