Garen with Tristana
How to Synergize Garen and Tristana
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Garen Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Garen with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Garen Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Garen in LoL
The Garen Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Tristana helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is an ally to Tristana, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Tristana does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Tristana 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 with Tristana.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Tristana on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Tristana does a decent job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no one best ally for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Tristana is a not very good teammate for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, she lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 46.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Garen and Tristana that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Tristana has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Tristana allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Garen players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Garen and Tristana together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to work well with Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Garen and Tristana synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Tristana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 46.6% helping carry Tristana with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Tristana with Garen are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.