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.
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
The Garen Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Garen perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Nidalee, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could signal that Nidalee does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nidalee.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Nidalee on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Garen in team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a terrible ally for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, she lowers their win rate by -6.6% to 42.1%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Garen and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players should be cautious when finding Nidalee teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Garen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Garen and Nidalee together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to synergize with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Garen and Nidalee synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 42.1% when playing alongside Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Garen and Nidalee pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 42.1% winrate overall.
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