Garen with Vladimir
How to Synergize Garen and Vladimir
based on 3,064 Garen with Vladimir pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Vladimir Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Garen with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Garen Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Garen in LoL
The Garen Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vladimir helps Garen perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is an ally to Vladimir, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Vladimir doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Vladimir 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 with Vladimir.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Vladimir on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Vladimir does a decent job of covering Garen in team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no top ally for Garen that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Vladimir is a very typical teammate for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.5%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Garen and Vladimir that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players must be very careful when enlisting Vladimir comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Garen players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Garen and Vladimir together, you may not be providing your team a lot of utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen in order to pair well with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Garen and Vladimir synergy build include Dead Man's Plate, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Vladimir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 48.5% when playing alongside Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Vladimir with Garen are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.