Garen with Zilean
How to Synergize Garen and Zilean
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Garen Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Garen with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Garen Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Garen in LoL
The Garen Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Zilean, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may signal that Zilean supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Zilean on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Zilean
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Is Garen better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top ally for Garen that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Zilean is a decent companion for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 50.8%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Garen and Zilean that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players should be very careful when finding Zilean teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Garen and Zilean together, you will not be giving your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to pair well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Garen and Zilean synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Zilean than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 50.8% when playing alongside Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest chance 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 players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% win rate overall.
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