Garen with Nami
How to Synergize Garen and Nami
based on 3,485 Garen with Nami pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Nami Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Nami
Tips for Playing as Garen with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Garen Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Garen in LoL
The Garen Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nami helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is paired with Nami, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This may indicate that Nami doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Nami on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nami.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Nami on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Nami does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Nami
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Is Garen better when played alongside Nami?
There is no one best synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Nami is a below average companion for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, she lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Garen and Nami that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nami has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Nami allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Garen and Nami together, you will not be providing your team very much magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nami teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to synergize with Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Garen and Nami synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nami than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nami with Garen are shown for all ranked divisions. To scope the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.