Kalista with Garen
How to Synergize Kalista and Garen
based on 1,144 Kalista with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kalista Garen Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Garen
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Garen
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista 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 negative change shows that Garen helps Kalista perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is an ally to Garen, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This could signal that Garen does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Garen on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of covering Kalista during team fights.
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Kalista that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Garen is a terrible teammate for Kalista. By playing on the same side as Kalista, he lowers their win rate by -4.7% to 42.7%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Kalista and Garen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Garen teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, Kalista players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Kalista and Garen together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Kalista in order to synergize with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Kalista and Garen synergy build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Garen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 42.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Kalista players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 42.7% winrate overall.
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