Garen with Lux
How to Synergize Garen and Lux
based on 14,376 Garen with Lux pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Lux Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Lux
Tips for Playing as Garen with Lux
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 Lux Will Play
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Garen Lux Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lux as Garen in LoL
The Garen Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lux helps Garen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen plays on the same team as Lux, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Lux helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Lux 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 Lux.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Lux on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Lux does a poor job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Lux?
There is no ideal companion for Garen that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Lux is a very typical companion for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, she improves their win rate by 0.8% to 49.5%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Garen and Lux that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Lux has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Lux comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Garen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by grouping Garen and Lux together, you may not be giving your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Lux ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to pair well with Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Garen and Lux synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Garen incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Lux than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 49.5% helping carry Lux with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Overgrowth, and Demolish runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
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