Garen with Nilah
How to Synergize Garen and Nilah
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Garen Nilah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Garen with Nilah
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.
Garen Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Garen in LoL
The Garen Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nilah helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Nilah, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Nilah does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Nilah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nilah.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Nilah on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nilah does a decent job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no ideal companion for Garen that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Nilah is a top-tier teammate for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, they improves their win rate by 3.8% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a strong synergy between Garen and Nilah that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Garen. That means Garen players must be very careful when lining up Nilah teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Garen and Nilah together, you may not be granting your team very much magic damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 work well with Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Garen and Nilah synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Nilah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 52.5% helping carry Nilah with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
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