Garen with Vi
How to Synergize Garen and Vi
based on 3,540 Garen with Vi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Vi Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Vi
Tips for Playing as Garen with Vi
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 Vi Will Play
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
Garen Vi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vi as Garen in LoL
The Garen Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vi helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is an ally to Vi, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Vi supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Vi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vi.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Vi on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Vi does a decent job of protecting Garen in teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Vi?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Garen that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Vi is a pretty good ally for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, she increases their win rate by 1.2% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Garen and Vi that results in them performing better together than alone.
Vi has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Vi allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Garen and Vi together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vi teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Garen and Vi synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Vi than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Vi with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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