Kayn with Garen
How to Synergize Kayn and Garen
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Kayn Garen Synergy Summary
Best Kayn vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Garen
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Garen
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Kayn perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayn is paired with Garen, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Garen doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Garen.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Garen on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of covering Kayn in teamfights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Kayn that will always be his top ally. However, Garen is a not very good companion for Kayn. By locking into the same team as Kayn, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 47.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Kayn and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be cautious when lining up Garen comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kayn and Garen together, you will not be giving your team much magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayn to synergize with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kayn and Garen synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Kayn included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average winrate of 47.7% helping carry Garen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Kayn players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kayn and Garen pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.7% winrate overall.
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