Garen with Shaco
How to Synergize Garen and Shaco
based on 4,599 Garen with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Garen with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Garen Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Garen in LoL
The Garen Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shaco helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Shaco, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Shaco supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Shaco on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shaco.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Shaco on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Shaco
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Is Garen better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no one best ally for Garen that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Shaco is a very typical teammate for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 48.8%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Garen and Shaco that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Garen. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Shaco allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Garen players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Garen and Shaco together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of support. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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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 Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Garen and Shaco synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Garen bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Shaco than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Shaco with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Garen and Shaco pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Shaco with Garen are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.