Ivern with Garen
How to Synergize Ivern and Garen
based on 1,279 Ivern with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ivern Garen Synergy Summary
Best Ivern vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ivern and Garen
Tips for Playing as Ivern with Garen
Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!
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.
Ivern Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Ivern in LoL
The Ivern 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, Ivern sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Ivern perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ivern is paired with Garen, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Garen supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ivern is played with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Garen.
Moreover, when Ivern plays with Garen on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of covering Ivern in teamfights.
Synergies between Ivern and Garen
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Is Ivern better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Ivern that will always be his top ally. Yet, Garen is a very typical companion for Ivern. By locking into the same side as Ivern, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 50.5%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Ivern and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Ivern. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Ivern and Garen together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Ivern in order to pair well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Ivern and Garen synergy build include Redemption, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Garen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ivern had an average win rate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cosmic Insight, and Future's Market runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Ivern and Garen pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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