Garen with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Garen and Vel'Koz
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Garen Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Garen with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Garen Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Garen in LoL
The Garen Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vel'Koz helps Garen perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is paired with Vel'Koz, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Vel'Koz supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no ideal synergy for Garen that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 48.3%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Garen and Vel'Koz that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players must be cautious when arranging Vel'Koz comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Garen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Garen and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you should focus on increasing 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
To truly master Garen in order to work well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Garen and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Garen and Vel'Koz pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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