Garen with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Garen and Rek'Sai
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Garen Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Garen with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Garen Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Garen in LoL
The Garen Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rek'Sai helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Rek'Sai, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Rek'Sai does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rek'Sai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rek'Sai.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Rek'Sai does a decent job of protecting Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Rek'Sai
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Is Garen better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no top synergy for Garen that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Rek'Sai is a terrible teammate for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -4.8% to 43.9%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Garen and Rek'Sai that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be very careful when arranging Rek'Sai allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Garen players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Garen and Rek'Sai together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Rek'Sai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to pair well with Rek'Sai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Garen and Rek'Sai synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Rek'Sai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 43.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rek'Sai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.9% winrate overall.
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