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.
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
The Garen Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Yasuo helps Garen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Yasuo, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Yasuo does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Yasuo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Yasuo. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yasuo.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Yasuo on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of covering Garen in team fights.
There is no top companion for Garen that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Yasuo is a very typical companion for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Garen and Yasuo that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Garen. That means you need to be careful when finding Yasuo teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Garen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Garen and Yasuo together, you may not be granting your side very much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Yasuo ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to work well with Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Garen and Yasuo synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Yasuo than with most other common builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you 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 combinations we have analyed for Garen and Yasuo pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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