Garen with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Garen and Kog'Maw
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Garen Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Garen with Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Garen Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Garen in LoL
The Garen Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kog'Maw helps Garen perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Kog'Maw, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This may indicate that Kog'Maw provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Kog'Maw 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 synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no top companion for Garen that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Kog'Maw is a pretty good ally for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 49.7%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Garen and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players should be very careful when lining up Kog'Maw allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Garen and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen to synergize with Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Garen and Kog'Maw synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against 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 rune combinations players used for Garen and Kog'Maw pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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