Garen vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Garen
based on 3,103 Garen vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Garen vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several critical Garen versus Soraka counter stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Soraka. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Garen typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Soraka. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Soraka
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Who is Better, Garen or Soraka?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Soraka, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Garen makes an ok counter to Soraka.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Soraka, when facing one another, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Garen into Soraka.
Additionally, Garen has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing 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 Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a similar 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 somewhat poor counter to Soraka. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Garen against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically racks up much more CS relative to Soraka. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Garen versus Soraka build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Soraka than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 49.0% when countering Soraka with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Soraka 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 runes players used for Garen vs Soraka fights, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Soraka as Garen are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.