Garen with Kassadin
How to Synergize Garen and Kassadin
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Garen Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Garen with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Garen Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Garen in LoL
The Garen Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kassadin helps Garen perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Kassadin, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Kassadin doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Kassadin 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 synergisticly with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Kassadin on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Garen in teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Kassadin
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Is Garen better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no top champion pairing for Garen that will always be his ideal ally. However, Kassadin is a very typical ally for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 48.6%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Garen and Kassadin that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you must be very careful when lining up Kassadin allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Garen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Garen and Kassadin together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to pair well with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Garen and Kassadin synergy build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when playing alongside Kassadin with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Garen and Kassadin pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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