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.
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
The Garen Pantheon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pantheon, 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 Pantheon. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Pantheon helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Pantheon, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Pantheon does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Pantheon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Pantheon.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Pantheon on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Pantheon does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Garen that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Pantheon is a not very good teammate for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 47.1%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Garen and Pantheon that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Pantheon has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be very careful when lining up Pantheon allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Garen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Garen and Pantheon together, you may not be granting your other allies enough magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Pantheon teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to pair well with Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Garen and Pantheon synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Pantheon than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when playing alongside Pantheon with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Pantheon with Garen are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.