Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
The Nidalee Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nidalee sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Nidalee perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee is paired with Garen, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Garen does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Garen on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Garen does a decent job of covering Nidalee in teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Nidalee that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, Garen is a not very good companion for Nidalee. By playing on the same team as Nidalee, he decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 42.1%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Nidalee and Garen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be very careful when arranging Garen allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Nidalee and Garen together, you may not be providing your team much crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to work well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Nidalee and Garen synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Garen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 42.1% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Nidalee players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 42.1% win rate overall.
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