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How to Synergize Garen with Cassiopeia on the Same TeamGaren is in the b tier of champions

Garen with Cassiopeia

How to Win With Garen and Cassiopeia Paired TogetherGaren is in the s tier of champions
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How to Synergize Garen and Cassiopeia

based on 1,045 Garen with Cassiopeia pairs
Win Rate
47.2 %
K/D/A
1.9
Pick Rate
0.8 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers pull the stats from from millions of League of Legends matches directly from Riot Games each and every week. Garen has been on the same team as Cassiopeia in 1045 recent, ranked games. By gathering so much complete data directly from the hosts of League, we have complete confidence that we can give you high quality, usable builds to help Garen synergize with Cassiopeia. It is very rare for Garen to play alongside Cassiopeia as allies. This has only taken place in approximately 0.8% of games with Garen.

Garen Cassiopeia Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Garen does a poor job of teaming up with Cassiopeia. Usually, he wins a lowly 47.2% of matches the champions fight together on the same side. If you want to win more matches as Garen when fighting on the same team as Cassiopeia by figuring out how to better synergize your tactics with her, then check out the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Garen vs Cassiopeia Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Black CleaverDead Man's PlateStridebreaker

Optional Items

Sundered SkySterak's GageTrinity ForceHullbreaker

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Garen to level upe
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Second ability for Garen to level upq
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Last skill for Garen to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceArmor
Garen's passive ability p
Garen's q ability q
Garen's w ability w
Garen's e ability e
Garen's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
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R
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E
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Q
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Q
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R
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W
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Cassiopeia

Tips for Playing as Garen with Cassiopeia

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 Cassiopeia Will Play

Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.

Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.

Garen Cassiopeia Synergy Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
47.2 %
VS
Win Rate
52.8 %
Cassiopeia Image
5.9
< Kills >
6.1
5.1
< Deaths >
5.1
3.8
< Assists >
4
1.36
< Killing Sprees >
1.39
179
< Minions Killed >
177
0.12
< Dragons Killed >
0.11
0.59
< Inhibitors >
0.6
13,977
< Physical Damage >
14,138
208
< Magic Damage >
217
4,680
< True Damage >
4,716
18,866
< Damage Dealt >
19,071
31,772
< Damage Taken >
31,656
12,171
< Gold Earned >
12,134
2.77
< Towers >
2.76
0.02
< Baron Takedowns >
0.03
3,242
< Total Healing >
3,226
15,343
< Experience >
15,287
17
< Vision Score >
17
8
< Wards Placed >
8
143
< Time Dealing CC >
142

How to Play with Cassiopeia as Garen in LoL

The Garen Cassiopeia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cassiopeia, 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 Cassiopeia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Cassiopeia helps Garen perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Garen plays on the same team as Cassiopeia, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Cassiopeia does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Cassiopeia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Cassiopeia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Cassiopeia.

Moreover, when Garen plays with Cassiopeia on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Cassiopeia does a poor job of protecting Garen in team fights.

Synergies between Garen and Cassiopeia

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Cassiopeia
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Garen
Cassiopeia

Is Garen better when played alongside Cassiopeia?

There is no one best champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Cassiopeia is a below average companion for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Garen and Cassiopeia that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.

Cassiopeia has a much greater difficulty compared to Garen. That means Garen players should be very careful when enlisting Cassiopeia comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to play well with you.

Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.

Although, by aligning Garen and Cassiopeia together, you may not be granting your team much support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.

Regardless of your Cassiopeia ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen Cassiopeia Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Garen and Cassiopeia, we analyzed 1,045 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Garen with Cassiopeia comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to synergize with Cassiopeia 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.

The ideal items to build first in your Garen and Cassiopeia synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Cassiopeia than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 47.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Cassiopeia with this build.

To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Garen and Cassiopeia pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.

If you want to see Garen with Cassiopeia cooperations tips and builds for a an individual division rank, feel free to select one from the selection menu shown above. If viewing for the first time, the statistics and guides shown are computed using every round with data with both champions.