Kassadin with Garen
How to Synergize Kassadin and Garen
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Kassadin Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Garen
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Garen
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Kassadin perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin is paired with Garen, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Garen supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin 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 Kassadin plays with Garen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of covering Kassadin in teamfights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Garen?
There is no one best synergy for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Garen is a not very good teammate for Kassadin. By locking into the same side as Kassadin, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 48.6%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Kassadin and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be careful when arranging Garen teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Kassadin players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Kassadin and Garen together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kassadin to work well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Kassadin and Garen synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Malignance. When Kassadin bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 48.6% helping carry Garen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Kassadin players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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