Garen with Maokai
How to Synergize Garen and Maokai
based on 4,841 Garen with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Garen with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Garen Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Garen in LoL
The Garen Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Garen perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Maokai, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Garen during team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Maokai
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Is Garen better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Garen that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Maokai is a top-tier teammate for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he raises their win rate by 3.1% to 51.8%. This proves that there is a very strong bond between Garen and Maokai that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Maokai comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Garen and Maokai together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Garen and Maokai synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Garen and Maokai pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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