Garen with Zed
How to Synergize Garen and Zed
based on 3,854 Garen with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Zed Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Zed
Tips for Playing as Garen with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Garen Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Garen in LoL
The Garen Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Garen perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is an ally to Zed, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Zed does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Zed on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best ally for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Zed is a very bad teammate for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, he drops their win rate by -3.5% to 45.2%. This shows that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Garen and Zed that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you must be careful when arranging Zed teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Garen and Zed together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much magic damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Garen and Zed synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 45.2% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.2% winrate overall.
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