Garen with Poppy
How to Synergize Garen and Poppy
based on 1,186 Garen with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Garen with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Garen Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Garen in LoL
The Garen Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Poppy helps Garen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Poppy, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Poppy supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Poppy on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Poppy.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Poppy on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Poppy does a poor job of covering Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no top synergy for Garen that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Poppy is a not very good ally for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 47.2%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Garen and Poppy that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Poppy has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Poppy comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Garen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Garen and Poppy together, you will not be granting your other allies enough magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Poppy ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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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 Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Garen and Poppy synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Poppy than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when playing alongside Poppy with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
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