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.
The Garen Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Volibear helps Garen perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Volibear, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Volibear doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Volibear on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Volibear. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Volibear.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Volibear on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Volibear does a poor job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
There is no perfect companion for Garen that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Volibear is a relatively poor ally for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, he decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 46.3%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Garen and Volibear that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Volibear has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be careful when enlisting Volibear comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Garen and Volibear together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Volibear ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to work well with Volibear during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Garen and Volibear synergy build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Volibear than with most other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 46.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Volibear with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.3% win rate overall.
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