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.
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
The Garen Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Yorick helps Garen perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen plays on the same team as Yorick, he observes a noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Yorick does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Yorick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Yorick. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Yorick.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Yorick on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Yorick does a decent job of covering Garen in teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Yorick is a decent ally for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, he increases their win rate by 2.6% to 51.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Garen and Yorick that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players must be cautious when lining up Yorick comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Garen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Garen and Yorick together, you may not be giving your team much utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to work well with Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Garen and Yorick synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Yorick than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Yorick with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Garen and Yorick pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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