Zac with Garen
How to Synergize Zac and Garen
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Zac Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Garen
Tips for Playing as Zac with Garen
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Zac in LoL
The Zac 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, Zac 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 negative change shows that Garen helps Zac perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zac plays on the same team as Garen, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Garen does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Garen.
Additionally, when Zac plays with Garen on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Garen does a decent job of protecting Zac in teamfights.
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Is Zac better when played alongside Garen?
There is no one best synergy for Zac that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Garen is a relatively poor companion for Zac. By being on the same team as Zac, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 49.8%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Zac and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Zac. That means Zac players don't need to be cautious when finding Garen allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Zac and Garen together, you will not be providing your side very much utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zac to work well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Zac and Garen synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Garen than with many other common builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 49.8% helping carry Garen with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Zac and Garen pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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