Leona with Garen
How to Synergize Leona and Garen
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Leona Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Garen
Tips for Playing as Leona with Garen
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Leona perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona plays on the same team as Garen, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Garen does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Garen on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of covering Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal synergy for Leona that will always be her best ally. Yet, Garen is a below average companion for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Leona and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players need to be cautious when lining up Garen allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Leona and Garen together, you may not be providing your team enough AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to synergize with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Leona and Garen synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 51.0% helping carry Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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