Garen with Talon
How to Synergize Garen and Talon
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Garen Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Talon
Tips for Playing as Garen with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Garen Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Garen in LoL
The Garen Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Talon helps Garen perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen plays on the same team as Talon, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Talon supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Talon on the same side, 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 Talon.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Talon on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Talon does a poor job of protecting Garen in teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Talon?
There is no top synergy for Garen that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Talon is a very typical companion for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 47.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Garen and Talon that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Talon has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Talon allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Garen and Talon together, you may not be granting your side much AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Talon teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to work well with Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Garen and Talon synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Talon than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Talon with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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