Ezreal vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Ezreal
based on 8,257 Ezreal vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ezreal vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Ezreal vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Ezreal
Tips for Playing as Ezreal against Garen
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Ezreal in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several significant Ezreal vs. Garen counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Ezreal’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ezreal may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen..
Ezreal usually 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 indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ezreal and Garen
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Who is Better, Ezreal or Garen?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ezreal usually loses when trying to fight Garen, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Ezreal makes a poor counter for Garen.
While Ezreal does have a lower winrate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Ezreal also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Ezreal into Garenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ezreal also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ezreal vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ezreal is a terribly counter to Garen. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ezreal against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ezreal in order to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ezreal typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Garen. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Ezreal versus Garen build consist of Muramana, Spear of Shojin, and Essence Reaver. When Ezreal included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Ezreal had an average winrate of 46.8% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Garen as Ezreal, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ezreal vs Garen counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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