Bard with Garen
How to Synergize Bard and Garen
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Bard Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Garen
Tips for Playing as Bard with Garen
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Bard perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard tries to synergize with Garen, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Garen provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Garen on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Garen?
There is no top synergy for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Garen is a very typical teammate for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 51.3%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Bard and Garen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Bard players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Bard and Garen together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to work well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Bard and Garen synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Garen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
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