Brand vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Brand
based on 8,525 Brand vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Garen
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Brand vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Brand in LoL
The stats provided here show some important Brand versus Garen counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Brand often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Brand or Garen?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when taking on Garen, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Brand makes a good counter for Garen.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Garen, when facing one another, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Garen.
Additionally, Brand also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Garen matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Brand is an above average counter for Garen. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Brand to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often accumulates less CS relative to Garen. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Brand versus Garen build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 52.9% when playing against Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Garen as Brand, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Brand vs Garen battles, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.9% win rate overall.
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