Syndra vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Syndra
based on 2,761 Syndra vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Garen
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
Advice to Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Syndra vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Syndra in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Syndra versus Garen counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Syndra typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Syndra and Garen
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Who is Better, Syndra or Garen?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually fairs equally well when facing off against Garen, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Syndra makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Syndra does have a lower win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Syndra also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Syndra into Garenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Syndra also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Syndra is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Syndra against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Syndra in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Garen. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Syndra versus Garen build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Syndra had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Garen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Garen as Syndra, Syndra players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Syndra vs Garen counters, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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