Garen vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Garen
based on 5,096 Garen vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Veigar
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 Veigar
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
Garen vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several valuable Garen vs. Veigar matchup statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Veigar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Veigar..
Garen usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Veigar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Veigar
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Who is Better, Garen or Veigar?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Veigar, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Garen makes an ok counter for Veigar.
While Garen does have a lower winrate compared to Veigar, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Veigar.
Additionally, Garen also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Veigar. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Veigar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Veigar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Veigar. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Garen versus Veigar build consist of Hullbreaker, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Veigar than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 49.3% when countering Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Veigar as Garen, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Garen vs Veigar counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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