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How to Synergize Garen with Kha'Zix on the Same TeamGaren is in the b tier of champions

Garen with Kha'Zix

How to Win With Garen and Kha'Zix Paired TogetherGaren is in the a tier of champions
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How to Synergize Garen and Kha'Zix

based on 3,409 Garen with Kha'Zix pairs
Win Rate
48.9 %
K/D/A
1.9
Pick Rate
2.5 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers pull data from from millions of LoL matches straight from Riot Games each and every week. Garen has gone into battle with Kha'Zix in 3409 recently played, ranked matches. By amassing so much complete data straight from the creators of League of Legends, we are confident that we can provide you with robust, usable builds to help Garen play with Kha'Zix. It is relatively rare for Garen to play with Kha'Zix on the same side. This pairing has only occurred in about 2.5% of games with Garen.

Garen Kha'Zix Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Garen does a poor job of teaming up with Kha'Zix. Typically, he wins an acceptable 48.9% of the time the champs try and work together in. If you want to win more matches as Garen when playing with Kha'Zix by figuring out how to better synergize your strategy with him, then dig into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Garen vs Kha'Zix Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
HullbreakerDead Man's PlateStridebreaker

Optional Items

Spear of ShojinMortal ReminderPhantom DancerJak'Sho, The Protean

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

SorceryPhase RushNimbus CloakCelerityGathering Storm
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceMagic Resist
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
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W
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E
5
E
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R
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E
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Kha'Zix

Tips for Playing as Garen with Kha'Zix

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 Kha'Zix Will Play

Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.

Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.

Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.

Garen Kha'Zix Synergy Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
48.9 %
VS
Win Rate
51.1 %
Kha'Zix Image
5.8
< Kills >
6.1
5.1
< Deaths >
5.1
3.9
< Assists >
4
1.33
< Killing Sprees >
1.39
188
< Minions Killed >
177
0.06
< Dragons Killed >
0.11
0.63
< Inhibitors >
0.6
14,129
< Physical Damage >
14,138
218
< Magic Damage >
217
4,736
< True Damage >
4,716
19,084
< Damage Dealt >
19,071
31,984
< Damage Taken >
31,656
12,239
< Gold Earned >
12,134
2.84
< Towers >
2.76
0.02
< Baron Takedowns >
0.03
2,897
< Total Healing >
3,226
15,639
< Experience >
15,287
17
< Vision Score >
17
8
< Wards Placed >
8
141
< Time Dealing CC >
142

How to Play with Kha'Zix as Garen in LoL

The Garen Kha'Zix synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kha'Zix, 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 Kha'Zix. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kha'Zix helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.

When Garen plays on the same team as Kha'Zix, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Kha'Zix helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Kha'Zix on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kha'Zix.

Additionally, when Garen plays with Kha'Zix on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Kha'Zix does a poor job of protecting Garen during teamfights.

Synergies between Garen and Kha'Zix

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Kha'Zix
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Garen
Kha'Zix

Is Garen better when played alongside Kha'Zix?

There is no universally accepted best companion for Garen that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Kha'Zix is a very typical teammate for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Garen and Kha'Zix that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.

Kha'Zix has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Kha'Zix allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.

Working cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.

In contrast, by aligning Garen and Kha'Zix together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.

Regardless of the ability of your Kha'Zix teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen Kha'Zix Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Garen and Kha'Zix, we analyzed 3,409 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 Kha'Zix 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 pair well with Kha'Zix during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.

The most crucial finished items to use in your Garen and Kha'Zix synergy build include Hullbreaker, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kha'Zix than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Kha'Zix with these items in his kit.

To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Garen and Kha'Zix pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.

By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Kha'Zix with Garen are presented for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.