Garen with Rakan
How to Synergize Garen and Rakan
based on 3,458 Garen with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Garen with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Garen Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Garen in LoL
The Garen Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is an ally to Rakan, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Rakan helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Rakan 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 with Rakan.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Rakan on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of covering Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Rakan is a not very good ally for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Garen and Rakan that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Rakan comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Garen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Garen and Rakan together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen to pair well with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Garen and Rakan synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Rakan with Garen are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.