Garen with Varus
How to Synergize Garen and Varus
based on 5,084 Garen with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Varus Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Varus
Tips for Playing as Garen with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Garen Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Garen in LoL
The Garen Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Varus helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is paired with Varus, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Varus supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Varus.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Varus on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Varus does a poor job of covering Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Varus
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Is Garen better when played alongside Varus?
There is no top ally for Garen that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Varus is a relatively poor companion for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 47.1%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Garen and Varus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Varus allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Garen and Varus together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 synergize with Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Garen and Varus synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Varus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 47.1% when playing alongside Varus with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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