Garen vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Garen
based on 1,086 Garen vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Garen vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Garen in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Garen versus Kog'Maw counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kog'Maw..
Garen normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Kog'Maw. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Garen or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kog'Maw, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Garen makes an ok counter for Kog'Maw.
While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Kog'Maw.
Furthermore, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter for Kog'Maw. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen to counter Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Kog'Maw. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Garen versus Kog'Maw build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Kog'Maw than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 49.8% battling Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Kog'Maw 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 that we analyzed for Garen vs Kog'Maw counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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