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How to Synergize Garen with Syndra on the Same TeamGaren is in the b tier of champions

Garen with Syndra

How to Win With Garen and Syndra Paired TogetherGaren is in the a tier of champions
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How to Synergize Garen and Syndra

based on 2,800 Garen with Syndra pairs
Win Rate
48.6 %
K/D/A
1.94
Pick Rate
2.1 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers pull data from from millions of League of Legends matches straight from Riot Games each and every week. Garen has gone into battle with Syndra in 2800 recently played, competitive games. By gathering so much relevant data directly from the publishers of League of Legends, we are confident that we can produce robust, accurate builds to help Garen synergize with Syndra. It is relatively rare for Garen to play with Syndra as teammates. This pairing has only happened in about 2.1% of rounds with Garen.

Garen Syndra Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Garen does a poor job of synergizing with Syndra. On average, he wins an acceptable 48.6% of rounds the champions try and synergize their gameplay. If you want to win more matches as Garen when playing with Syndra by figuring out how to better synergize your tactics with her, then review the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Garen vs Syndra Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Trinity ForceDead Man's PlateSundered Sky

Optional Items

Sterak's GageMortal ReminderPhantom DancerHullbreaker

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Garen to level upe
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Second ability for Garen to level upq
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Last skill for Garen to max outw

Runes

SorceryPhase RushNimbus CloakCelerityGathering Storm
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Garen's passive ability p
Garen's q ability q
Garen's w ability w
Garen's e ability e
Garen's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
6
R
7
E
8
Q
9
E
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Q
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R
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Q
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Q
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W
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W
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R

Guide to Synergizing Garen and Syndra

Tips for Playing as Garen with Syndra

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 Syndra Will Play

To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.

After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.

Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.

Garen Syndra Synergy Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
48.6 %
VS
Win Rate
51.4 %
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6
< Kills >
6.1
5.1
< Deaths >
5.1
3.9
< Assists >
4
1.4
< Killing Sprees >
1.39
182
< Minions Killed >
177
0.11
< Dragons Killed >
0.11
0.6
< Inhibitors >
0.6
14,452
< Physical Damage >
14,138
209
< Magic Damage >
217
4,782
< True Damage >
4,716
19,443
< Damage Dealt >
19,071
32,146
< Damage Taken >
31,656
12,296
< Gold Earned >
12,134
2.84
< Towers >
2.76
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.03
3,279
< Total Healing >
3,226
15,568
< Experience >
15,287
17
< Vision Score >
17
8
< Wards Placed >
8
145
< Time Dealing CC >
142

How to Play with Syndra as Garen in LoL

The Garen Syndra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Syndra, 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 Syndra. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Syndra helps Garen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Garen tries to synergize with Syndra, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Syndra helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Syndra on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Syndra.

Moreover, when Garen plays with Syndra on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Syndra does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.

Synergies between Garen and Syndra

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Syndra
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Garen
Syndra

Is Garen better when played alongside Syndra?

There is no universally accepted best synergy for Garen that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Syndra is a very typical teammate for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, she drops their win rate by -0.1% to 48.6%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Garen and Syndra that results in them performing not as well together than alone.

Syndra has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players need to be very careful when arranging Syndra comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.

Playing cooperatively, Garen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.

Although, by pairing Garen and Syndra together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of support. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.

Regardless of the ability of your Syndra teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen Syndra Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Garen and Syndra, we analyzed 2,800 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Garen with Syndra comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To truly master Garen to synergize with Syndra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.

The ideal finished items to focus on in your Garen and Syndra synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Garen combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Syndra than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 48.6% when playing alongside Syndra with this build.

To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Garen and Syndra pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.

If you want to see Garen with Syndra cooperations tips and stats for a a specific player tier, feel free to choose one from the selection menu provided above. If viewing for the first time, the stats and guides given are computed using every round with data with these champs.