Lissandra with Garen
How to Synergize Lissandra and Garen
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Lissandra Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lissandra and Garen
Tips for Playing as Lissandra with Garen
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Lissandra in LoL
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra 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 drop shows that Garen helps Lissandra perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra tries to synergize with Garen, she observes a little increase in her total damage output. This difference could indicate that Garen supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Garen.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Garen on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Lissandra during team fights.
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Is Lissandra better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal ally for Lissandra that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. However, overall, Garen is a relatively poor ally for Lissandra. By locking into the same side as Lissandra, he lowers their win rate by -3.0% to 46.5%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Lissandra and Garen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players don't need to be cautious when arranging Garen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, Lissandra players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Lissandra and Garen together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lissandra to work well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Lissandra and Garen synergy build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 46.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Garen with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Lissandra players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.5% win rate overall.
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