Kindred with Garen
How to Synergize Kindred and Garen
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Kindred Garen Synergy Summary
Best Kindred vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Garen
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Garen
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Garen helps Kindred perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kindred plays on the same team as Garen, they sees a small decrease in their full damage dealt. This change could signal that Garen doesn't help protection for them to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Kindred plays with Garen on the same team, they on average receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Garen does a decent job of covering Kindred during team fights.
Synergies between Kindred and Garen
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Kindred that will 100% of the time be their best synergy. However, Garen is a relatively poor teammate for Kindred. By playing on the same side as Kindred, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 47.2%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Kindred and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Kindred. That means Kindred players must be careful when arranging Garen allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Kindred players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Kindred and Garen together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kindred to synergize with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Kindred and Garen synergy build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Terminus. When Kindred included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better when paired up with Garen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kindred boasted an average winrate of 47.2% helping carry Garen with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kindred players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
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