Viktor with Garen
How to Synergize Viktor and Garen
based on 1,747 Viktor with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viktor Garen Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Garen
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Garen
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor sees a very large drop in his 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 Viktor perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Viktor tries to synergize with Garen, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Garen provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played alongside Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Garen on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of covering Viktor during team fights.
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal companion for Viktor that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Garen is a below average teammate for Viktor. By being on the same side as Viktor, he lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 48.1%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Viktor and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Garen comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Viktor and Garen together, you may not be giving your team enough support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor to synergize with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Viktor and Garen synergy build include Lich Bane, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Viktor boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Viktor and Garen pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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