Thresh with Garen
How to Synergize Thresh and Garen
based on 4,706 Thresh with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Garen Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Garen
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Garen
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Thresh perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is paired with Garen, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Garen supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Garen on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of covering Thresh during teamfights.
Synergies between Thresh and Garen
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal synergy for Thresh that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Garen is a not very good teammate for Thresh. By being on the same side as Thresh, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 46.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Thresh and Garen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Garen teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Thresh players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Thresh and Garen together, you may not be giving your side a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Thresh to work well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Thresh and Garen synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 46.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Thresh players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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