Jax with Garen
How to Synergize Jax and Garen
based on 4,321 Jax with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Jax Garen Synergy Summary
Best Jax vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Garen
Tips for Playing as Jax with Garen
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Jax in LoL
The Jax 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, Jax 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 Jax perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jax plays on the same team as Garen, he sees a noticable drop in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Garen does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Garen.
Moreover, when Jax plays with Garen on the same side, he typically receives more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Jax in teamfights.
Synergies between Jax and Garen
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Is Jax better when played alongside Garen?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Jax that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Garen is a not very good teammate for Jax. By playing on the same side as Jax, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 49.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Jax and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Jax. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Garen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Jax and Garen together, you may not be providing your other allies very much support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen teammate, you should focus on increasing 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
To truly master Jax to synergize with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Jax and Garen synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jax bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Jax and Garen pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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