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.
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
The Garen Veigar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Veigar, 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 Veigar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Veigar helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is an ally to Veigar, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Veigar supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Veigar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Veigar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Veigar.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Veigar on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Veigar does a poor job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Garen that will always be his top ally. However, Veigar is a very typical teammate for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 48.9%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Garen and Veigar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Veigar has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you need to be careful when lining up Veigar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Garen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Garen and Veigar together, you may not be granting your other allies much AD. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Veigar ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to work well with Veigar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Garen and Veigar synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Veigar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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