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

Garen vs Xayah

How to Beat Xayah as Garen in LoLGaren is in the b tier of champions
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How to Beat Xayah as Garen

based on 2,032 Garen vs Xayah matchups
Win Rate
50.4 %
K/D/A
2
Pick Rate
1.5 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We summarize our matchup stats from the millions of rated League of Legends rounds that we analyze every week. This guide on how to beat Xayah as Garen resulted from an analysis of 2032 ranked matches where both champions faced each other. This particular pairing is relatively rare. Garen encounters Xayah in only 1.5% of his rounds.

Garen vs Xayah Matchup Summary

Garen does a ok job of countering Xayah. On average, he wins a acceptable 50.4% of matches the champs clash against each other in. In Garen against Xayah rounds, Garen’s side is 0.0% more likely to gain first blood, implying that he most likely will be able to get first blood versus Xayah.

Best Garen vs Xayah Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
HullbreakerDead Man's PlateStridebreaker

Optional Items

Sterak's GagePhantom DancerTrinity ForceBlack Cleaver

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 ForceHealth Scaling
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
10
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 Xayah as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Xayah

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 Xayah

Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.

Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!

Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.

Garen vs Xayah Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
50.4 %
VS
Win Rate
49.6 %
Xayah Image
6
< Kills >
6.3
5
< Deaths >
5.9
4
< Assists >
6.4
1.38
< Killing Sprees >
1.43
174
< Minions Killed >
178
0.11
< Dragons Killed >
0.3
0.6
< Inhibitors >
0.51
13,921
< Physical Damage >
19,508
236
< Magic Damage >
398
4,634
< True Damage >
370
18,792
< Damage Dealt >
20,276
31,395
< Damage Taken >
20,128
12,025
< Gold Earned >
11,844
2.76
< Towers >
2.37
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.1
3,307
< Total Healing >
4,725
15,164
< Experience >
12,651
17
< Vision Score >
18
8
< Wards Placed >
9
142
< Time Dealing CC >
53

How to Counter Xayah with Garen in LoL

The stats shown on this page clarify several important Garen against Xayah matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xayah..

Garen often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Xayah. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.

Differences between Garen and Xayah

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Xayah
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Xayah

Who is Better, Garen or Xayah?

Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when playing against Xayah, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Garen makes an ok counter for Xayah.

While Garen does have a higher winrate than Xayah, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Xayah.

Furthermore, Garen also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.

While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Xayah matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.

Garen is a decent counter to Xayah. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Xayah.

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 Xayah Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Xayah as Garen, we analyzed 2,032 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 Xayah 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

Garen Build Xayah Build

Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Xayah 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Xayah. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.

The best items to prioritize in your Garen versus Xayah build include Hullbreaker, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Xayah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 50.4% when countering Xayah with this build.

To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Xayah as Garen, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Garen vs Xayah counters, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.

By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Garen are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.