Akali with Garen
How to Synergize Akali and Garen
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Akali Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Garen
Tips for Playing as Akali with Garen
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Akali perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali tries to synergize with Garen, she observes a small increase in her total damage output. This could demonstrate that Garen helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Garen on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Akali in team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal synergy for Akali that will always be her top synergy. However, overall, Garen is a very typical companion for Akali. By playing on the same side as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 48.6%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Akali and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Garen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Akali and Garen together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to pair well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Akali and Garen synergy build include Void Staff, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 48.6% helping carry Garen with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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