Vladimir with Garen
How to Synergize Vladimir and Garen
based on 3,064 Vladimir with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vladimir Garen Synergy Summary
Best Vladimir vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Garen
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Garen
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir 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, Vladimir sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Vladimir perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vladimir is paired with Garen, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may signal that Garen doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir 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 alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Vladimir plays with Garen on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Garen does a decent job of covering Vladimir during teamfights.
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal synergy for Vladimir that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Garen is a relatively poor companion for Vladimir. By locking into the same side as Vladimir, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 48.5%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Vladimir and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Vladimir. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Vladimir and Garen together, you may not be giving your team enough support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir in order to synergize with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Vladimir and Garen synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vladimir had an average winrate of 48.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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