Ahri with Garen
How to Synergize Ahri and Garen
based on 3,860 Ahri with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ahri Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ahri and Garen
Tips for Playing as Ahri with Garen
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Ahri in LoL
The Ahri Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ahri sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Garen helps Ahri perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ahri tries to synergize with Garen, she observes a small increase in her full damage dealt. This may indicate that Garen helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Ahri is played with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Additionally, when Ahri plays with Garen on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of covering Ahri in teamfights.
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Is Ahri better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Ahri that will always be her top teammate. However, Garen is a below average teammate for Ahri. By playing on the same team as Ahri, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Ahri and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Ahri. That means Ahri players don't need to be cautious when arranging Garen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Ahri players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Ahri and Garen together, you will not be granting your side a lot of crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 Ahri in order to work well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Ahri and Garen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Garen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 47.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Ahri players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Garen with Ahri are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.