Garen with Orianna
How to Synergize Garen and Orianna
based on 1,806 Garen with Orianna pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Orianna Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Orianna
Tips for Playing as Garen with Orianna
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 Orianna Will Play
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Garen Orianna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Orianna as Garen in LoL
The Garen Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Orianna helps Garen perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is an ally to Orianna, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Orianna helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Orianna 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 Orianna.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Orianna on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Orianna does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Orianna
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Is Garen better when played alongside Orianna?
There is no perfect companion for Garen that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Orianna is a terrible ally for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, she drops their win rate by -4.1% to 44.6%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Garen and Orianna that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players need to be very careful when finding Orianna teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Garen and Orianna together, you will not be granting your other allies much utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to pair well with Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Garen and Orianna synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Orianna than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 44.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.6% win rate overall.
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