Garen with Mordekaiser
How to Synergize Garen and Mordekaiser
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Garen Mordekaiser Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Mordekaiser
Tips for Playing as Garen with Mordekaiser
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 Mordekaiser Will Play
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
Garen Mordekaiser Synergy Stats
How to Play with Mordekaiser as Garen in LoL
The Garen Mordekaiser synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Mordekaiser, 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 Mordekaiser. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Mordekaiser helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Mordekaiser, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Mordekaiser does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Mordekaiser on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Mordekaiser.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Mordekaiser on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Mordekaiser does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Mordekaiser?
There is no ideal companion for Garen that will always be his top synergy. However, Mordekaiser is a pretty good ally for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he raises their win rate by 2.2% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Garen and Mordekaiser that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Mordekaiser has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be cautious when arranging Mordekaiser teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Garen and Mordekaiser together, you will not be giving your team much utility. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Mordekaiser ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 synergize with Mordekaiser during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Garen and Mordekaiser synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Garen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Mordekaiser than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Mordekaiser with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Garen and Mordekaiser pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.9% win rate overall.
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