Garen vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Garen
based on 4,681 Garen vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Garen vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several critical Garen against Zed counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between the pair. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zed..
Garen usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Zed. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Zed
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Who is Better, Garen or Zed?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zed, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes an ok counter for Zed.
While Garen does have a higher winrate than Zed, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Zed.
Additionally, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Zed matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Garen is a decent counter for Zed. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Zed. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Garen versus Zed build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Zed than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 50.9% battling Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Zed as Garen, Garen players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Garen vs Zed fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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