Katarina with Garen
How to Synergize Katarina and Garen
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Katarina Garen Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Garen
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Garen
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina 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 Katarina perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Garen, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Garen supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Garen on the same team, 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.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Garen on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Garen
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. However, Garen is a relatively poor ally for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 47.1%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Katarina and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when arranging Garen allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Katarina players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Katarina and Garen together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina to pair well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Katarina and Garen synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 47.1% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Katarina players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Katarina and Garen pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.1% winrate overall.
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