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How to Win Garen vs Cassiopeia Counter MatchupGaren is in the b tier of champions

Garen vs Cassiopeia

How to Beat Cassiopeia as Garen in LoLGaren is in the s tier of champions
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How to Beat Cassiopeia as Garen

based on 1,185 Garen vs Cassiopeia matchups
Win Rate
48.9 %
K/D/A
2.02
Pick Rate
0.9 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We generate our counter stats from the millions of recently ranked League games that we evaluate every week. Our guide on how to beat Cassiopeia as Garen resulted from an analysis of 1185 ranked matches where both champions faced each other. This counter matchup is fairly rare. Garen fights Cassiopeia in only 0.9% of his rounds.

Garen vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Garen does a poor job of countering Cassiopeia. Normally, he wins a acceptable 48.9% of matches the champions face off with each other in. In Garen against Cassiopeia matches, Garen’s team is 0.0% more likely to earn first blood. This implies that he most likely will get first blood against Cassiopeia.

Best Garen vs Cassiopeia Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageTrinity ForceDead Man's Plate

Optional Items

HullbreakerSundered SkyBlack CleaverStridebreaker

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Garen to level upe
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Second ability for Garen to level upq
>
Last skill for Garen to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceArmor
Garen's passive ability p
Garen's q ability q
Garen's w ability w
Garen's e ability e
Garen's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
6
R
7
E
8
Q
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E
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Q
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R
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Q
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Q
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W
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W
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R

Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Cassiopeia

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 Cassiopeia

Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.

Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.

Garen vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
48.9 %
VS
Win Rate
51.1 %
Cassiopeia Image
6.1
< Kills >
6.4
4.9
< Deaths >
5.9
3.8
< Assists >
6.2
1.42
< Killing Sprees >
1.47
180
< Minions Killed >
176
0.11
< Dragons Killed >
0.13
0.62
< Inhibitors >
0.44
14,211
< Physical Damage >
707
207
< Magic Damage >
21,563
4,805
< True Damage >
351
19,224
< Damage Dealt >
22,622
31,810
< Damage Taken >
26,270
12,288
< Gold Earned >
11,655
2.82
< Towers >
1.86
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.05
3,224
< Total Healing >
6,882
15,469
< Experience >
15,293
17
< Vision Score >
19
8
< Wards Placed >
9
143
< Time Dealing CC >
460

How to Counter Cassiopeia with Garen in LoL

The stat comparisons provided here show some significant Garen vs. Cassiopeia matchup stats that may help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Cassiopeia..

Garen typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Cassiopeia. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.

Differences between Garen and Cassiopeia

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Cassiopeia
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Cassiopeia

Who is Better, Garen or Cassiopeia?

Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when trying to fight Cassiopeia, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a bad counter to Cassiopeia.

While Garen does have a lower winrate than Cassiopeia, when facing one another, Garen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Garen into Cassiopeia.

Furthermore, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.

Garen is a somewhat poor counter for Cassiopeia. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against Cassiopeia.

Other Champion Matchups Against Garen

Garen Loses Against

LilliaLillia43% winrateMordekaiserMordekaiser43.5% winrateKayleKayle44.1% winrateTrundleTrundle44.7% winrate

Garen Wins Against

YuumiYuumi56.1% winrateNidaleeNidalee54.9% winrateK'SanteK'Sante53.3% winrateEzrealEzreal53.2% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

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Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen vs Cassiopeia Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Cassiopeia as Garen, we analyzed 1,185 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Cassiopeia as Garen comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To truly master Garen in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen often picks up a similar amount of CS as Cassiopeia. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.

The most important items to have in your Garen versus Cassiopeia build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Cassiopeia than with most other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 48.9% battling Cassiopeia with this build.

To have the best chance of crushing Cassiopeia as Garen, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Garen vs Cassiopeia clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.

If you need to see Garen x Cassiopeia tips and builds for a a specific player tier, please select one from the selection menu shown above. If viewing for the first time, the stats and strategies given are computed using every game played with these champs.