Garen with Sona
How to Synergize Garen and Sona
based on 3,312 Garen with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Sona Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Sona
Tips for Playing as Garen with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Garen Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Garen in LoL
The Garen Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sona helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen plays on the same team as Sona, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Sona doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sona.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Sona on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Sona does a decent job of protecting Garen during team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Sona?
There is no one best companion for Garen that will always be his top ally. However, Sona is a very typical teammate for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, she improves their win rate by 0.2% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Garen and Sona that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be careful when arranging Sona teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Garen and Sona together, you may not be giving your other allies very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Sona ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 work well with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Garen and Sona synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Sona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 48.9% helping carry Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Garen players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Garen and Sona pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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