Garen with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Garen and Xin Zhao
based on 3,610 Garen with Xin Zhao pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Garen with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Garen Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Garen in LoL
The Garen Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Garen perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is an ally to Xin Zhao, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Xin Zhao does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Garen during team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no ideal synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical companion for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 48.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Garen and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Xin Zhao teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Garen and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Garen and Xin Zhao synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 48.0% helping carry Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Garen and Xin Zhao pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Xin Zhao with Garen are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.