Janna with Garen
How to Synergize Janna and Garen
based on 2,955 Janna with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Janna Garen Synergy Summary
Best Janna vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Janna and Garen
Tips for Playing as Janna with Garen
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Janna in LoL
The Janna Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Janna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Garen helps Janna perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Janna is an ally to Garen, she gets a little increase in her total damage output. This may signal that Garen supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Janna is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Additionally, when Janna plays with Garen on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of covering Janna in team fights.
Synergies between Janna and Garen
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Is Janna better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Janna that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Garen is a not very good companion for Janna. By being on the same team as Janna, he lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 49.3%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Janna and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Janna. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Garen allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Janna players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by bringing Janna and Garen together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to pair well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Janna and Garen synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Ardent Censer. When Janna bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 49.3% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Janna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Janna and Garen pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Garen with Janna are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.