Zeri with Garen
How to Synergize Zeri and Garen
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Zeri Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zeri and Garen
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.
Zeri Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Zeri in LoL
The Zeri Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zeri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Garen helps Zeri perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zeri plays on the same team as Garen, they gets a barely noticable drop in their complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Garen does not help cover for them to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zeri is played alongside Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Zeri plays with Garen on the same side, they on average takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Zeri during team fights.
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Is Zeri better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Zeri that will no matter what be their best ally. Yet, Garen is a below average teammate for Zeri. By being on the same team as Zeri, he drops their win rate by -2.7% to 43.5%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Zeri and Garen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Zeri. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Garen comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Zeri players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Zeri and Garen together, you may not be giving your team a lot of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Zeri in order to pair well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Zeri and Garen synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Experimental Hexplate, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Zeri included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better when paired up with Garen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zeri boasted an average winrate of 43.5% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Zeri and Garen pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 43.5% winrate overall.
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