Garen with Thresh
How to Synergize Garen and Thresh
based on 4,706 Garen with Thresh pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Garen with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Garen Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Garen in LoL
The Garen Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Thresh helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Thresh, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Thresh does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Thresh on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Thresh. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Thresh.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Thresh on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Thresh does a decent job of protecting Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Thresh
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Is Garen better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no top champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Thresh is a relatively poor ally for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 46.7%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Garen and Thresh that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Thresh has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you must be careful when arranging Thresh comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Garen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Garen and Thresh together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 synergize with Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Garen and Thresh synergy build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Garen used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Thresh than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 46.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Thresh with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Garen and Thresh pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Thresh with Garen are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.