Wukong with Garen
How to Synergize Wukong and Garen
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Wukong Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Garen
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Garen
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong 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, Wukong sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Wukong perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Wukong plays on the same team as Garen, he observes a noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Garen doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played alongside Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Additionally, when Wukong plays with Garen on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Wukong during team fights.
Synergies between Wukong and Garen
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Garen?
There is no one best champion pairing for Wukong that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Garen is a not very good teammate for Wukong. By being on the same team as Wukong, he lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 46.6%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Wukong and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Wukong. That means you should be careful when lining up Garen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Wukong and Garen together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Wukong in order to pair well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Wukong and Garen synergy build include Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Garen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Wukong boasted an average winrate of 46.6% helping carry Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Wukong players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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