Garen with Brand
How to Synergize Garen and Brand
based on 8,964 Garen with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Brand Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Brand
Tips for Playing as Garen with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
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.
Garen Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Garen in LoL
The Garen Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Brand helps Garen perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Brand, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Brand supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Brand.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Brand on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of protecting Garen in team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Brand?
There is no one best synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Brand is a fantastic companion for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, he improves their win rate by 3.8% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a strong synergy between Garen and Brand that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Brand teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Garen and Brand together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of utility. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Brand ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen to pair well with Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Garen and Brand synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Brand than with most other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 52.5% when playing alongside Brand with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
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