Brand with Garen
How to Synergize Brand and Garen
based on 8,964 Brand with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Garen Synergy Summary
Best Brand vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Garen
Tips for Playing as Brand with Garen
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Brand perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand is paired with Garen, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Garen provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Garen.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Garen on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Brand in teamfights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal companion for Brand that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Garen is a decent ally for Brand. By playing on the same side as Brand, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 52.5%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Brand and Garen that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Brand. That means you must be careful when enlisting Garen teammates 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.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Brand and Garen together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Brand to synergize with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Brand and Garen synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 52.5% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.5% win rate overall.
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