Zed with Garen
How to Synergize Zed and Garen
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Zed Garen Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Garen
Tips for Playing as Zed with Garen
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Zed perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Garen, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Garen does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Garen on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Garen does a decent job of protecting Zed during team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Garen
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Is Zed better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Zed that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Garen is a terrible companion for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 45.2%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Zed and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be very careful when lining up Garen allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Zed and Garen together, you may not be providing your team enough magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to pair well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Zed and Garen synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Zed included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 45.2% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.2% winrate overall.
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