Shyvana with Garen
How to Synergize Shyvana and Garen
based on 1,727 Shyvana with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Garen Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Garen
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Garen
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana 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, Shyvana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Shyvana perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana is an ally to Garen, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Garen does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Garen on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Garen does a decent job of protecting Shyvana in team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Garen
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Garen?
There is no perfect companion for Shyvana that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. However, Garen is a not very good companion for Shyvana. By locking into the same team as Shyvana, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 47.4%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Shyvana and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players need to be careful when finding Garen teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Shyvana players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Shyvana and Garen together, you will not be granting your team much utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing 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
If you would like to truly master Shyvana to work well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Shyvana and Garen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average winrate of 47.4% helping carry Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Shyvana players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Shyvana and Garen pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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