Heimerdinger with Garen
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Garen
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Heimerdinger Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Garen
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Garen
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play
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.
Heimerdinger Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger plays on the same team as Garen, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Garen does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Garen.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Garen on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Garen does a decent job of covering Heimerdinger in team fights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Garen
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal synergy for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Garen is a very typical companion for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same team as Heimerdinger, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Garen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Heimerdinger and Garen together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough support. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to pair well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Heimerdinger and Garen synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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