Garen with Olaf
How to Synergize Garen and Olaf
based on 294 Garen with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Garen with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Garen Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Garen in LoL
The Garen Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Olaf helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is paired with Olaf, he observes a noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Olaf does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Olaf.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Olaf on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Olaf does a decent job of covering Garen during teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Olaf
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Is Garen better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no one best champion pairing for Garen that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Olaf is a terrible ally for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, he decreases their win rate by -3.5% to 45.2%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Garen and Olaf that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Olaf comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Garen and Olaf together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Olaf ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen in order to synergize with Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Garen and Olaf synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Olaf than with many other common builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 45.2% when playing alongside Olaf with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.2% winrate overall.
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