Garen with Lissandra
How to Synergize Garen and Lissandra
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Garen Lissandra Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Garen with Lissandra
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 Lissandra Will Play
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
Garen Lissandra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lissandra as Garen in LoL
The Garen Lissandra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lissandra, 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 Lissandra. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lissandra helps Garen perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is paired with Lissandra, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Lissandra helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Lissandra 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 Lissandra.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Lissandra on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Lissandra does a poor job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Lissandra
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Is Garen better when played alongside Lissandra?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Garen that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Lissandra is a below average ally for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, she decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 46.5%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Garen and Lissandra that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Lissandra has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you must be careful when enlisting Lissandra teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Garen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by grouping Garen and Lissandra together, you probably will not be giving your team enough crowd control. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Lissandra ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 in order to pair well with Lissandra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Garen and Lissandra synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Lissandra than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 46.5% helping carry Lissandra with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Lissandra with Garen are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.