Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
The Garen Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Anivia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Anivia helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Anivia, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Anivia supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Anivia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Anivia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Anivia.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Anivia on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Anivia does a poor job of covering Garen during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Anivia is a good ally for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, she raises their win rate by 1.6% to 53.3%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Garen and Anivia that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Anivia has a much greater difficulty compared to Garen. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Anivia teammates to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Garen players will likely see 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 pairing Garen and Anivia together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Anivia ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Garen to synergize with Anivia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Garen and Anivia synergy build include Stridebreaker, Mortal Reminder, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Anivia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 53.3% helping carry Anivia with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Anivia with Garen are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.