Blitzcrank with Garen
How to Synergize Blitzcrank and Garen
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Blitzcrank Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Blitzcrank and Garen
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank with Garen
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Blitzcrank in LoL
The Blitzcrank 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, Blitzcrank sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Blitzcrank perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Blitzcrank is paired with Garen, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could indicate that Garen provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Blitzcrank is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Blitzcrank plays with Garen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Blitzcrank during teamfights.
Synergies between Blitzcrank and Garen
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Is Blitzcrank better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal ally for Blitzcrank that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Garen is a not very good ally for Blitzcrank. By being on the same side as Blitzcrank, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 50.5%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Blitzcrank and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Blitzcrank. That means you need to be careful when finding Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Blitzcrank and Garen together, you may not be granting your team a lot of magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank to synergize with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Blitzcrank and Garen synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Blitzcrank bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Garen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Blitzcrank players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Blitzcrank and Garen pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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