Orianna with Garen
How to Synergize Orianna and Garen
based on 1,806 Orianna with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Orianna Garen Synergy Summary
Best Orianna vs Garen Counter Build
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Core Orianna Items
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Guide to Synergizing Orianna and Garen
Tips for Playing as Orianna with Garen
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Orianna in LoL
The Orianna 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, Orianna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Orianna perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna is an ally to Garen, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This change may indicate that Garen provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played alongside Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Garen.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Garen on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Garen does a poor job of covering Orianna during teamfights.
Synergies between Orianna and Garen
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Is Orianna better when played alongside Garen?
There is no one best companion for Orianna that will always be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Garen is a relatively poor teammate for Orianna. By playing on the same side as Orianna, he drops their win rate by -2.9% to 44.6%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Orianna and Garen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Garen comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Orianna players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Orianna and Garen together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of utility. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Orianna in order to synergize with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Orianna and Garen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 44.6% when playing alongside Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.6% win rate overall.
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