Volibear with Garen
How to Synergize Volibear and Garen
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Volibear Garen Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear and Garen
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.
Volibear Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear sees a very large drop in his 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 Volibear perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Volibear plays on the same team as Garen, he observes a measurable drop in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Garen does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played alongside Garen on the same side, 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 Volibear plays with Garen on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Volibear during teamfights.
Synergies between Volibear and Garen
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Garen?
There is no top synergy for Volibear that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Garen is a below average companion for Volibear. By being on the same team as Volibear, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 46.3%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Volibear and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Volibear. That means Volibear players should be careful when finding Garen allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Volibear players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Volibear and Garen together, you will not be granting your team very much AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Volibear in order to pair well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Volibear and Garen synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Garen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Volibear had an average winrate of 46.3% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Volibear players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Garen with Volibear are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.