Garen with Ryze
How to Synergize Garen and Ryze
based on 972 Garen with Ryze pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Ryze Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Ryze Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Garen Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Garen and Ryze
Tips for Playing as Garen with Ryze
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 Ryze Will Play
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Garen Ryze Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ryze as Garen in LoL
The Garen Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ryze helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Ryze, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Ryze doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Ryze on the same side, 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 Ryze.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Ryze on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Ryze does a decent job of protecting Garen in teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Ryze
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Is Garen better when played alongside Ryze?
There is no perfect companion for Garen that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Ryze is a very typical teammate for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 47.7%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Garen and Ryze that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Ryze teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Garen and Ryze together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 synergize with Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Garen and Ryze synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Ryze than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing alongside Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Garen and Ryze pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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