Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ryze. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ryze helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen plays on the same team as Ryze, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Ryze does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ryze.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Ryze on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Ryze does a decent job of covering Garen in teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Ryze is a terrible ally for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -4.4% to 47.3%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible bond between Garen and Ryze that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you must be careful when finding Ryze teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Garen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Garen and Ryze together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Garen to synergize with Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Garen and Ryze synergy build include Stridebreaker, Mortal Reminder, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Ryze than with most other common builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 47.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Garen players 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 players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
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