Garen with Xerath
How to Synergize Garen and Xerath
based on 5,561 Garen with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Garen with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Garen Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Garen in LoL
The Garen Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xerath helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Xerath, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Xerath supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Xerath on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Xerath
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Is Garen better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no one best synergy for Garen that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Xerath is a fantastic companion for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he improves their win rate by 3.2% to 51.9%. This shows that there is a very real strategic relationship between Garen and Xerath that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players should be careful when finding Xerath comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Garen and Xerath together, you will not be providing your other allies much utility. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Xerath teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to work well with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Garen and Xerath synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Garen bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Xerath than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 51.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Garen and Xerath pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
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