Garen with Kayn
How to Synergize Garen and Kayn
based on 5,707 Garen with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Garen with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Garen Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Garen in LoL
The Garen Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kayn helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Kayn, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Kayn provides 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 Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kayn.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Kayn on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Kayn does a poor job of covering Garen during team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no ideal ally for Garen that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Kayn is a very typical teammate for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 47.7%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Garen and Kayn that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Kayn comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Garen players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Garen and Kayn together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to pair well with Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Garen and Kayn synergy build consist of Dead Man's Plate, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Kayn than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 47.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kayn with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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