Garen with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Garen and Nunu & Willump
based on 3,227 Garen with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Garen with Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump Will Play
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Garen Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Garen in LoL
The Garen Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, 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 Nunu & Willump. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nunu & Willump helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is paired with Nunu & Willump, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Nunu & Willump provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Nunu & Willump
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Is Garen better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Garen that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Nunu & Willump is a terrible companion for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he drops their win rate by -3.4% to 45.3%. This shows that there is a very bad synergy between Garen and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be very careful when lining up Nunu & Willump allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Garen players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Garen and Nunu & Willump together, you probably will not be giving your team enough support. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen in order to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Garen and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Nunu & Willump than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 45.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Garen players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Garen and Nunu & Willump pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.3% winrate overall.
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