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How to Synergize Garen with Taliyah on the Same TeamGaren is in the b tier of champions

Garen with Taliyah

How to Win With Garen and Taliyah Paired TogetherGaren is in the s tier of champions
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How to Synergize Garen and Taliyah

based on 1,342 Garen with Taliyah pairs
Win Rate
47.4 %
K/D/A
1.98
Pick Rate
1 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

We download the stats from from millions of League of Legends matches directly from Riot Games each week. Garen has fought alongside Taliyah in 1342 recently played, ranked matches. By pooling so much relevant data from the creators of LoL, we are totally sure that we can give you high-quality, usable builds to help Garen synergize with Taliyah. It is very rare for Garen to play alongside Taliyah as teammates. This has only happened in approximately 1.0% of matches with Garen.

Garen Taliyah Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Garen does a dismal job of playing alongside Taliyah. Typically, he wins a dismal 47.4% of rounds the champs try and work together in. If you want to maximize your potential as Garen when playing alongside Taliyah by figuring out how to better synergize your strategy with her, then check out the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Garen vs Taliyah Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordDagger

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Black CleaverTrinity ForceDead Man's Plate

Optional Items

Sterak's GageSundered SkyHullbreakerStridebreaker

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Garen to level upe
>
Second ability for Garen to level upq
>
Last skill for Garen to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Garen's passive ability p
Garen's q ability q
Garen's w ability w
Garen's e ability e
Garen's ultimate ability r
1
Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
6
R
7
E
8
Q
9
E
10
Q
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R
12
Q
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Q
14
W
15
W
16
R

Guide to Synergizing Garen and Taliyah

Tips for Playing as Garen with Taliyah

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 Taliyah Will Play

Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.

Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.

Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.

Garen Taliyah Synergy Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
47.4 %
VS
Win Rate
52.6 %
Taliyah Image
6.2
< Kills >
6.1
5.1
< Deaths >
5.1
3.9
< Assists >
4
1.44
< Killing Sprees >
1.39
183
< Minions Killed >
177
0.09
< Dragons Killed >
0.11
0.59
< Inhibitors >
0.6
14,097
< Physical Damage >
14,138
198
< Magic Damage >
217
4,725
< True Damage >
4,716
19,021
< Damage Dealt >
19,071
31,636
< Damage Taken >
31,656
12,280
< Gold Earned >
12,134
2.79
< Towers >
2.76
0.01
< Baron Takedowns >
0.03
3,028
< Total Healing >
3,226
15,451
< Experience >
15,287
17
< Vision Score >
17
8
< Wards Placed >
8
140
< Time Dealing CC >
142

How to Play with Taliyah as Garen in LoL

The Garen Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Taliyah helps Garen perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.

When Garen tries to synergize with Taliyah, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Taliyah does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Taliyah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Taliyah. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Taliyah.

Moreover, when Garen plays with Taliyah on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Taliyah does a decent job of covering Garen during teamfights.

Synergies between Garen and Taliyah

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Taliyah
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Garen
Taliyah

Is Garen better when played alongside Taliyah?

There is no universally accepted best companion for Garen that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Taliyah is a below average ally for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 47.4%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Garen and Taliyah that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.

Taliyah has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be very careful when finding Taliyah teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.

Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.

Conversely, by grouping Garen and Taliyah together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.

Regardless of the skill of your Taliyah teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen Taliyah Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Garen and Taliyah, we analyzed 1,342 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Garen with Taliyah comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to work well with Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.

The top finished items to include in your Garen and Taliyah synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Taliyah than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 47.4% when playing alongside Taliyah with these items in his kit.

To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.

By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Taliyah with Garen are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.