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How to Win Garen vs Kai'Sa Counter MatchupGaren is in the b tier of champions

Garen vs Kai'Sa

How to Beat Kai'Sa as Garen in LoLGaren is in the b tier of champions
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How to Beat Kai'Sa as Garen

based on 5,605 Garen vs Kai'Sa matchups
Win Rate
50.6 %
K/D/A
1.98
Pick Rate
4.1 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We get our counter stats from the millions of ranked League matches that we review every week. This guide on how to beat Kai'Sa as Garen resulted from an evaluation of 5605 ranked matches where both champs opposed one another. This particular champion matchup is fairly uncommon. Garen has to counter Kai'Sa in only 4.1% of his matches.

Garen vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary

Garen does a ok job of beating Kai'Sa. On average, he wins a acceptable 50.6% of matches the champs face off with one another in. In Garen versus Kai'Sa matches, Garen’s team is 0.1% less probable to earn first blood, indicating that he probably won't get first blood versus Kai'Sa.

Best Garen vs Kai'Sa Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Trinity ForceDead Man's PlateSundered Sky

Optional Items

Spear of ShojinPhantom DancerSterak's GageKaenic Rookern

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

SorceryPhase RushNimbus CloakCelerityGathering Storm
ResolveSecond WindOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceMagic Resist
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
9
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 Kai'Sa as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Kai'Sa

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 Kai'Sa

Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.

Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.

Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.

Garen vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
50.6 %
VS
Win Rate
49.4 %
Kai'Sa Image
6
< Kills >
7.7
5.1
< Deaths >
6.2
4.1
< Assists >
6.2
1.39
< Killing Sprees >
1.79
176
< Minions Killed >
180
0.11
< Dragons Killed >
0.24
0.6
< Inhibitors >
0.49
13,874
< Physical Damage >
12,429
197
< Magic Damage >
8,157
4,639
< True Damage >
442
18,710
< Damage Dealt >
21,028
31,285
< Damage Taken >
19,998
12,103
< Gold Earned >
12,596
2.77
< Towers >
2.19
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.08
3,169
< Total Healing >
4,433
15,283
< Experience >
12,911
17
< Vision Score >
17
8
< Wards Placed >
8
141
< Time Dealing CC >
46

How to Counter Kai'Sa with Garen in LoL

The stats shown on this page emphasize some influential Garen versus Kai'Sa counter statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kai'Sa’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kai'Sa..

Garen normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kai'Sa. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.

Differences between Garen and Kai'Sa

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Kai'Sa
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Kai'Sa

Who is Better, Garen or Kai'Sa?

Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when taking on Kai'Sa, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Garen makes an ok counter to Kai'Sa.

While Garen does have a higher winrate compared to Kai'Sa, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Kai'Sa.

Moreover, Garen has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Kai'Sa matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.

Garen is a decent counter to Kai'Sa. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Kai'Sa.

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

BrandBrand+ 52.5% 8964 GamesNilahNilah+ 52.5% 1991 GamesKledKled+ 53.8% 262 GamesLilliaLillia+ 54.9% 7886 Games

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen vs Kai'Sa Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Kai'Sa as Garen, we analyzed 5,605 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 Kai'Sa 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.

Other Useful Resources

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Kai'Sa. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.

The ideal items to use in your Garen versus Kai'Sa build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Garen included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Kai'Sa than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Kai'Sa with these items in his kit.

To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Kai'Sa as Garen, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Garen vs Kai'Sa counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.

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