Garen with Soraka
How to Synergize Garen and Soraka
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Garen Soraka Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Garen with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Garen Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Garen in LoL
The Garen Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Soraka helps Garen perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Soraka, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Soraka supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Soraka on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Soraka.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Soraka on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Soraka does a poor job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no top companion for Garen that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Soraka is a terrible companion for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, she drops their win rate by -3.1% to 45.6%. This proves that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Garen and Soraka that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Soraka has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Soraka teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Garen and Soraka together, you will not be granting your team much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Soraka teammate, you need to focus on increasing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Garen to work well with Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Garen and Soraka synergy build include Trinity Force, Force of Nature, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Soraka than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 45.6% when playing alongside Soraka with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Soraka with Garen are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.