Garen with Skarner
How to Synergize Garen and Skarner
based on 400 Garen with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Garen with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Garen Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Garen in LoL
The Garen Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen plays on the same team as Skarner, he sees a clear improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Skarner helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Skarner on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Skarner does a poor job of protecting Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Skarner
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Is Garen better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no one best ally for Garen that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Skarner is a very typical companion for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Garen and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be cautious when arranging Skarner teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Garen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Garen and Skarner together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 in order to synergize with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Garen and Skarner synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 47.8% helping carry Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for Garen and Skarner pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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