Poppy with Garen
How to Synergize Poppy and Garen
based on 1,186 Poppy with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Garen Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Garen
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Garen
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy 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 drop shows that Garen helps Poppy perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy is paired with Garen, she gets a noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Garen does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Garen on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Garen does a decent job of protecting Poppy during team fights.
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Garen?
There is no perfect synergy for Poppy that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Garen is a below average companion for Poppy. By being on the same team as Poppy, he decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 47.2%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Poppy and Garen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Garen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Poppy players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by bringing Poppy and Garen together, you probably will not be providing your side very much magic damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Poppy in order to work well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Poppy and Garen synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 47.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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