Garen with Leona
How to Synergize Garen and Leona
based on 4,711 Garen with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Leona Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Leona
Tips for Playing as Garen with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Garen Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Garen in LoL
The Garen Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Leona helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is an ally to Leona, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Leona does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Leona on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Leona does a decent job of covering Garen in team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Leona?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Garen that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Leona is a decent companion for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, she raises their win rate by 2.3% to 51.0%. This demonstrates that there is a good synergy between Garen and Leona that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Leona teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Garen and Leona together, you may not be giving your other allies very much AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Leona teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen to synergize with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Garen and Leona synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Garen incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Leona than with most other typical builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Garen players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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