Garen vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Garen
based on 5,078 Garen vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Blitzcrank
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.
Advice to Win Against Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Garen vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here feature several influential Garen against Blitzcrank matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Blitzcrank’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Blitzcrank. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Garen usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Blitzcrank. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Garen or Blitzcrank?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Blitzcrank, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a poor counter to Blitzcrank.
While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Blitzcrank, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Garen into Blitzcrank.
Moreover, Garen has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Garen is a terribly counter to Blitzcrank. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Garen against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen to counter Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average accumulates much more CS relative to Blitzcrank. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Garen versus Blitzcrank build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Blitzcrank than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 46.8% battling Blitzcrank with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Blitzcrank as Garen, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Garen vs Blitzcrank matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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