Garen with Lucian
How to Synergize Garen and Lucian
based on 7,220 Garen with Lucian pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Garen with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Garen Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Garen in LoL
The Garen Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Lucian helps Garen perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Lucian, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Lucian does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Lucian 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 with Lucian.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Lucian on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Lucian does a decent job of covering Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no ideal ally for Garen that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Lucian is a below average companion for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 47.2%. This shows that there is a negative synergy between Garen and Lucian that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Lucian has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you must be careful when lining up Lucian teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Garen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Garen and Lucian together, you may not be giving your team very much AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Lucian ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Garen to work well with Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Garen and Lucian synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Lucian than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Demolish, and Second Wind runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Garen and Lucian pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
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