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

Garen with Heimerdinger

How to Win With Garen and Heimerdinger Paired TogetherGaren is in the b tier of champions
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How to Synergize Garen and Heimerdinger

based on 1,811 Garen with Heimerdinger pairs
Win Rate
48.8 %
K/D/A
1.96
Pick Rate
1.3 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

We pull data from from millions of LoL matches straight from Riot Games each and every week. Garen has fought alongside Heimerdinger in 1811 recent, ranked games. By accumulating so much great data from the developers of LoL, we are sure that we can showcase high-quality, accurate builds to help Garen play with Heimerdinger. It is very rare for Garen to play alongside Heimerdinger on the same team. This pairing has only happened in about 1.3% of rounds with Garen.

Garen Heimerdinger Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Garen has done a poor job of playing alongside Heimerdinger. Typically, he wins an acceptable 48.8% of the time the champs try and work together in. If you want to maximize your potential as Garen when playing alongside Heimerdinger by learning how to better synergize your strategy with him, then check out the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Garen vs Heimerdinger Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageTrinity ForceStridebreaker

Optional Items

Phantom DancerDead Man's PlateHullbreakerSundered Sky

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
>
Last skill for Garen to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
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
6
R
7
E
8
Q
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E
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Q
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R
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Q
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Q
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W
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W
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R

Guide to Synergizing Garen and Heimerdinger

Tips for Playing as Garen with Heimerdinger

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 Heimerdinger Will Play

Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.

The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.

Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.

Garen Heimerdinger Synergy Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
48.8 %
VS
Win Rate
51.2 %
Heimerdinger Image
6.2
< Kills >
6.1
5
< Deaths >
5.1
3.6
< Assists >
4
1.4
< Killing Sprees >
1.39
172
< Minions Killed >
177
0.13
< Dragons Killed >
0.11
0.64
< Inhibitors >
0.6
14,209
< Physical Damage >
14,138
236
< Magic Damage >
217
4,781
< True Damage >
4,716
19,226
< Damage Dealt >
19,071
31,802
< Damage Taken >
31,656
12,105
< Gold Earned >
12,134
2.7
< Towers >
2.76
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.03
3,428
< Total Healing >
3,226
15,269
< Experience >
15,287
17
< Vision Score >
17
8
< Wards Placed >
8
146
< Time Dealing CC >
142

How to Play with Heimerdinger as Garen in LoL

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

When Garen plays on the same team as Heimerdinger, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Heimerdinger helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Heimerdinger.

Moreover, when Garen plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Garen during team fights.

Synergies between Garen and Heimerdinger

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Heimerdinger
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Garen
Heimerdinger

Is Garen better when played alongside Heimerdinger?

There is no universally accepted best companion for Garen that will always be his #1 ally. However, Heimerdinger is a very typical teammate for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 48.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Garen and Heimerdinger that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.

Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Heimerdinger teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.

Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.

In contrast, by bringing Garen and Heimerdinger together, you may not be granting your team much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.

Regardless of the ability of your Heimerdinger teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen Heimerdinger Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Garen and Heimerdinger, we analyzed 1,811 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 Heimerdinger 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 Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.

The best items to build first in your Garen and Heimerdinger synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Heimerdinger than with most other typical builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when playing alongside Heimerdinger with this build.

To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.

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