Jarvan IV with Garen
How to Synergize Jarvan IV and Garen
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Jarvan IV Garen Synergy Summary
Best Jarvan IV vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jarvan IV and Garen
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV with Garen
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
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.
Jarvan IV Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Jarvan IV in LoL
The Jarvan IV 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, Jarvan IV sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Garen helps Jarvan IV perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jarvan IV is paired with Garen, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Garen doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Jarvan IV is played with Garen 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 synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Jarvan IV plays with Garen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Jarvan IV in teamfights.
Synergies between Jarvan IV and Garen
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Is Jarvan IV better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal synergy for Jarvan IV that will always be his #1 ally. However, Garen is a relatively poor companion for Jarvan IV. By being on the same team as Jarvan IV, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 46.5%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Jarvan IV and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Jarvan IV. That means Jarvan IV players don't need to be very careful when finding Garen allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Jarvan IV players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Jarvan IV and Garen together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jarvan IV in order to synergize with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Jarvan IV and Garen synergy build include Frozen Heart, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Jarvan IV boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Jarvan IV players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.5% winrate overall.
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