Yasuo with Garen
How to Synergize Yasuo and Garen
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Yasuo Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Garen
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Garen
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo 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, Yasuo sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Yasuo perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yasuo plays on the same team as Garen, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Garen does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo is played alongside Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Yasuo plays with Garen on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of covering Yasuo in teamfights.
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Garen?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Yasuo that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Garen is a very typical companion for Yasuo. By being on the same team as Yasuo, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 49.6%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Yasuo and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Yasuo. That means Yasuo players don't need to be cautious when lining up Garen teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Yasuo players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Yasuo and Garen together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Yasuo to work well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Yasuo and Garen synergy build include Blade of The Ruined King, Death's Dance, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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