Gragas with Garen
How to Synergize Gragas and Garen
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Gragas Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Garen
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Garen
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play
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.
Gragas Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Gragas perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Garen, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Garen does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Garen on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of covering Gragas during teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gragas that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Garen is a not very good teammate for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 45.6%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Gragas and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be careful when finding Garen teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Gragas players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Gragas and Garen together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to work well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Gragas and Garen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.6% winrate overall.
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