Garen with Akali
How to Synergize Garen and Akali
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Garen Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Akali
Tips for Playing as Garen with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
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.
Garen Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Garen in LoL
The Garen Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Garen sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akali helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Akali, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Akali helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Akali on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Akali does a poor job of covering Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Akali?
There is no one best companion for Garen that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Akali is a very typical ally for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, she decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 48.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Garen and Akali that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players need to be cautious when finding Akali comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Garen and Akali together, you may not be giving your other allies enough support. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to pair well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Garen and Akali synergy build consist of Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Akali than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 48.6% helping carry Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Garen and Akali pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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